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counter-roll

counter-roll noun: a duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

Noun

counter-roll (plural counter-rolls)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
    • It consists in making a counter roll, […]or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year1830, George Price, A Treatise on the law of the Exchequer

Forms of counter-roll

pluralcounter-rolls

Origin of counter-roll

From counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.

Questions about counter-roll

What does counter-roll mean?
Counter-roll means a duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
What part of speech is counter-roll?
Counter-roll is a noun.
What is the plural of counter-roll?
The plural of counter-roll is counter-rolls.

Words near counter-roll in the dictionary

  1. counter-revisionists
  2. counter-revolution
  3. counter-revolutionaries
  4. counter-revolutionary
  5. counter-revolutions
  6. counter-roll
  7. counter-rolls
  8. counter-rotation
  9. counter-rotations
  10. counter-salient
  11. counter-sectarian

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