comptrollership
Americannoun
plural
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When Lord Cornwallis was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, he pressed upon Colonel Napier, the father of THE Napiers, the comptrollership of army accounts.
From Character by Smiles, Samuel
As a political writer, he supported Pitt, and was rewarded by the comptrollership of taxes.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
The comptrollership of New York city is as important as that of Secretary of the United States Treasury.
From New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission by Ellis, DeLancey M.
In 1382 Chaucer’s financial prosperity reached its climax, for he received another comptrollership which he might exercise by deputy.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
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