comptroller general

1. 1.

   a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government

   Broaderofficial

Questions about comptroller general

What does comptroller general mean?

comptroller general means "a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government".

Is comptroller general a common word?

comptroller general is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.