HOW TO PRONOUNCE
comptroller
/kəmˈtɹoʊlɚ/
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kum-TROH-ler: leave out the p sound.
In kum-TROH-ler, the first syllable is light and the middle one rhymes with “grow.” Move directly from m to t-r, without adding a p sound.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The comptroller presented the annual financial report.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does comptroller mean?
noun
- The chief accountant of a company or government.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəmˈtɹoʊlɚ/
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Lord Hobart, N., Comptroller of the Household, in the room of Lord Hilsborough.
Upon this Nelson wrote to Sir Charles Middleton, then Comptroller of the Navy, representing the abuses which were likely to be practised in this manner.
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Decisions: -Comptroller General of the Those not officially United States published as decisions of the Comptroller General are published unofficially by Federal Publications, Inc.
But in every instance the Service has been fortified either by express statutes, or by decisions of the Supreme Court and other courts, of the Secretary of the Interior, of the Comptroller, or the Attorney-General, or by general principles of law which are beyond dispute.
You will oblige the young man, after fifteen years of lofty study, to begin, no longer as now with the offices of aspirant engineer, sub-lieutenant of artillery, second lieutenant, deputy, comptroller, general guardian, etc., but with the ignoble positions of pioneer, train-soldier, dredger, cabin-boy, fagot- maker, and exciseman.