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US
/ˈkɑmˌtɹoʊɫɝ, kəmˈtɹoʊɫɝ/
]
[ UK /kɒmtɹˈəʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /kɒmtɹˈəʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who maintains and audits business accounts
How To Use comptroller In A Sentence
- She has to stump up for her footmen's uniforms, her lawyers, her comptrollers, her embossed stationery, her gleaming motor cars, her ladies-in-waiting and her bodyguards 'bullet-proof jackets. Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age
- Candidates crisscrossed the metro area Sunday in a last-minute push for votes as the latest poll showed that while the New York governor's race has the makings of a blowout, the contests for attorney general and comptroller are a dead heat. Campaigning Down to the Wire
- Institutions generally are closed by their chartering authority – the state regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or the Office of Thrift Supervision.
- The comptroller is also supposed to audit public spending around the state -- in theory a huge bully pulpit for someone who wanted to try to go for big reform. Dan Collins: New York's Sexy Race For State Comptroller
- Mr Hevesi is the financial comptroller for New York state and his office administers the second largest pension fund in America.
- That power had been wrongly arrogated by the rogue federal regulator known as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Ed Mierzwinski: In The Public Interest : The More You Know, The More You Know We Need A Strong CFPB
- The mayor's enormous financial advantage played a significant role in clearing the field, but Mr. Thompson, who could have sought a third term as comptroller, chose to challenge Mr. Bloomberg. Early Entry Hits Trail With Eye on 2013
- Ruthie had been a budget analyst and then comptroller for a hospital chain for much of her working life.
- I know the officer of the comptroller of currency is going to do that as well.
- The most important of these was Robert Rochester, an Essex gentlemen from a distinguished but nonaristocratic family and now comptroller of her household. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558