How do you use Comptroller in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like accountant or controller, plus the exact meaning.
Comptroller meaning
The chief accountant of a company or government.
Synonyms of Comptroller
Using Comptroller
- The main meaning on this page is: The chief accountant of a company or government.
- Useful related words include: accountant, controller, businessperson, bourgeois.
- In the example corpus, comptroller often appears in combinations such as: the comptroller, comptroller general, comptroller of.
Context around Comptroller
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Comptroller
- In this selection, "comptroller" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, acting, deputy, city, general, brian and pointed stand out and add context to how "comptroller" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 115 assistant comptroller were elevated and a former comptroller general of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "comptroller" sits close to words such as accords, addictions and alfonso, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with comptroller
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A spokeswoman for the comptroller’s office declined to comment. (10 words)
Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General Nigeria Custom Service (NCS), inspecting Illela border of Sokoto State. (15 words)
The Comptroller, Ibrahim Muhammad, said this on Wednesday at the command’s port terminal in Port Harcourt. (17 words)
Between a 104-7 House vote to cut the comptroller general’s annual salary to $1 and the Senate’s scheduled April 11 vote to oust Eckstrom, Grooms suggested the rising heat had grown too intense for him to remain on the job. (43 words)
Perhaps this will also help to avoid the situation that we saw several times during the President Buhari administration, where the Customs Comptroller-General was repeatedly given revenue generation mandates by the National Assembly. (34 words)
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi, has unveiled plans of massive installation of scanners at the country’s seaports with the ultimate goal of facilitating better trade. (32 words)
How did City Comptroller Rita Crundwell manage to embezzle an astounding $54 million from the northwest Illinois community of 15,700 people before she was finally detected? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
He said 30 officers were promoted from Deputy Comptroller to Comptroller while 115 Assistant Comptroller were elevated to Deputy-Comptroller.
Currently, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has an Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks, who is the former Chief Legal Counsel of Coinbase.
Outgoing Comptroller of Customs, Area II Command, Aliyu Galadima Saidu, disclosed this while handing over to the new Comptroller of Customs, Awwal Mohammed at the Command headquarters in Onne.
Acting Comptroller General, NIS, Adepoju Carol, assured the Minister that all necessary resources and measures would be deployed to expedite processing of these pending passport applications.
Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General Nigeria Custom Service (NCS), inspecting Illela border of Sokoto State.
And Lander, the city comptroller, pointed to two seemingly disparate trends that together gave him optimism about the long-term allure of New York.
A spokeswoman for the comptroller’s office declined to comment.
Between a 104-7 House vote to cut the comptroller general’s annual salary to $1 and the Senate’s scheduled April 11 vote to oust Eckstrom, Grooms suggested the rising heat had grown too intense for him to remain on the job.
He lauded the acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Caroline Adepoju, for deeming it necessary to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NIS with a funfair.
How did City Comptroller Rita Crundwell manage to embezzle an astounding $54 million from the northwest Illinois community of 15,700 people before she was finally detected?
If the authorities and I, as a Minister, do not take action, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India will pull us up,” Ms. Sitharaman said.
Looks like the comptroller's office is forecasting a 7 percent decline in non-property tax revenues going forward.
Nigeria had around 1,500 identified land border crossings as of 2016, a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Martin Abeshi, stated.
Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs, the Inspector General of Police, and the Comptroller-General of Customs.
Perhaps this will also help to avoid the situation that we saw several times during the President Buhari administration, where the Customs Comptroller-General was repeatedly given revenue generation mandates by the National Assembly.
President Bola Tinubu has officially confirmed the appointment of Adewale Adeniyi as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service.
Regarding the proposal to merge Customs with other revenue generating agencies under one particular organisation, the Acting Comptroller General mentioned that details are yet to be revealed.
The command’s Comptroller, Kehinde Ilesanmi, disclosed at a press briefing in Ilorin on Tuesday that two suspects were arrested in connection with the incidents.
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi, has unveiled plans of massive installation of scanners at the country’s seaports with the ultimate goal of facilitating better trade.
The Comptroller, Ibrahim Muhammad, said this on Wednesday at the command’s port terminal in Port Harcourt.
Common combinations with comptroller
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: