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comptroller

noun as in controller

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He has served the people of New York City with intelligence, distinction and honor and they are fortunate to have the chance to vote for him for comptroller.

Along with the governor and the state treasurer, the comptroller sits on the powerful three-member Board of Public Works, which oversees state contracts.

The president of the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association, the state’s largest police union, didn’t respond to questions about the payments the comptroller is calling unlawful.

From 2017 through 2019, Mantua Township, near Philadelphia, gave three officers more than $9,000 that would conservatively fall into the category flagged by the comptroller, the town’s records show.

The contract would then go to the General Assembly for review in April and to the Board of Public Works — composed of the governor, state comptroller and treasurer — for final approval in May.

Wendy Greuel, a former Los Angeles comptroller, came in third.

(laughter) 38:22 FRIEDMAN: I mean… Comptroller of the state of Illinois, or something?

When another WFP ally, John Liu, also got in that race, party operatives leaned on him to run for city comptroller instead.

And Alan Hevesi, the former New York state comptroller, was there.

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer has declared that he will run for the post of New York City comptroller.

So home by moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller's coach, and so home to his house with him.

Then the Comptroller and I by water to Mr. Coventry, and there discoursed upon the same thing.

So we shall save the King some money, which both the Comptroller and his clerke had absolutely given away.

One bank remonstrated against the comptroller's decision, desiring to retain the services of women "hitherto satisfactory."

In the case of one bank, the Comptroller proved that not a single solitary loan had been made under fifteen per cent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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