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COMPTROLLER GENERAL

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Overview

COMPTROLLER GENERAL (noun)
  The noun COMPTROLLER GENERAL has 1 sense:

1. a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the governmentplay

  Familiarity information: COMPTROLLER GENERAL used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


COMPTROLLER GENERAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Comptroller General" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)


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