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compt.

compt. is the abbreviation of comptroller.

Meaning of comptroller

Noun

comptroller (plural comptrollers)

  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.1660 February 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 1st, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume...

Origin of compt.

From English comptroller.

Questions about compt.

What is compt. the abbreviation of?
Compt. is the abbreviation of comptroller.

Words near compt. in the dictionary

  1. compspec
  2. compspecs
  3. Compstall
  4. compstatin
  5. compt
  6. compt.
  7. Comptche
  8. compte rendu
  9. compted
  10. compter
  11. compters

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