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paymaster

 noun
     
pay‧mas‧ter [countable]
1SCC a powerful person or organization that secretly pays and controls another person or organization:
The assassin's paymasters were never identified.
2 someone who is responsible for giving people their wages that they are owed, for example an official in a factory or the army
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