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comptroller

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/kəmpˈtɹoʊləɹ/
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/kəmpˈtɹoʊləɹ/ · /kəmˈtɹoʊləɹ/

Definition of comptroller

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The chief accountant of a company or government.
    “So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.”
    “The terms of the licence shall, in default of agreement, be settled by the comptroller.”

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Etymology

From late Middle English compteroller, a spelling variant of countreroller (from which controller) due to folk etymology: the word was thought to have an etymological connection with Middle French compte (“account”) (Middle French compteroleur is attested circa 1375). Originally the two spellings were equivalent and pronounced identically; the modern pronunciation with [mp] is based on the spelling.

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