comptroller of the currency

1. 1.

   a United States federal official who regulates the national banks

   Broaderofficial
2. 2.

   the agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of the Treasury

Questions about comptroller of the currency

What does comptroller of the currency mean?

comptroller of the currency means "a United States federal official who regulates the national banks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is comptroller of the currency a common word?

comptroller of the currency 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.