N-COUNT A paymaster is a person or organization that pays and therefore controls another person or organization. 幕后老板 [oft with poss]
...the ruling party's paymasters in business and banking.
...执政党的商业及银行业后台老板。
N-COUNT A paymaster is an official in the armed forces who is responsible for the payment of wages and salaries. (军队中发薪的)出纳 [军事]
Maybe they’re wrong, of course, or maybe that’s a pretext offered to squelch a threat to their corporate paymasters.
可能他们错了，当然，也可能那只是发出对他们公司金主威胁一个的序幕。
Neither of Greece's two paymasters, the Europeans and the IMF, are considering withholding cash long enough to allow a chaotic default.
这两个希腊的出纳员，欧洲央行和IMF，都不打算把这笔款项扣留到出现混乱的违约情况为止。
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