pay office

pay office (plural pay offices)

1. The office or department in charge of payments to troops, employees, etc.
   • 1805, Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates - Volume 5, page 262:

     Not adverting to what I have just observed, I cannot help conceiving that gentlemen mislead themselves, by assimilating the navy pay office, in a great degree, to the army pay office, and supposing that, in all respects, the one has been regulated, or can be regulated, by the principles of the other.

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