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COMPTROLLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who maintains and audits business accounts
Synonyms:
accountant; comptroller; controller
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("comptroller" is a kind of...):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comptroller"):
auditor (a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization)
bean counter (an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures)
bookkeeper (someone who records the transactions of a business)
certified public accountant; CPA (an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state)
chartered accountant (a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter)
cost accountant (a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production)
Derivation:
comptrollership (the position of comptroller)
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