comptrollern.

Brit.

/kənˈtrəʊlə/,

/kəmpˈtrəʊlə/,

/ˌkɒmpˈtrəʊlə/, U.S.

/kənˈtroʊlər/,

/ˌkɑm(p)ˈtroʊlər/

Forms: late Middle English compterolleur, late Middle English–1500s comptrollour, late Middle English– comptroller, 1500s comtroller, 1500s–1600s comptroler, 1500s–1600s comptrowller.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: controller n.

Etymology: Alteration of controller n., by association of cont- , count- in that word with compt, variant of the etymologically unrelated verb count v.; compare β. forms at account v. and β. forms at account n.), and compare also β. forms at control v. and β. forms at control n.In later use, the retention of comptroller over controller in specific official titles was probably partly due to a desire to dissociate the title semantically from control v. With the form comptrollour compare -our suffix.

1. Frequently used in specific official titles.

a. A senior official within a household; = controller n. 2b. Now chiefly British and used in the households of the sovereign and members of the royal family.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > controller

controller1432

comptroller1433

1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §18. m. 15 Or any other greet officier of household, as steward, chamberlein, tresorer or compterolleur.

1536 Answere Kynges Hyghnes to Rebelles Yorkeshire sig. A.iv^v Syr wyllyam Poulet Comptroller of our house.

c1550 (?a1400) in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 782) (1790) 3 (MED) The Comptroller of the housholde.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 67 For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guilford This night to be Comptrollers .

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Sept. (1948) II. 20 Sir John Holland, comptroller of the houshold.

1766 Gentleman's Mag. May 266/1 Thomas Gilbert, Esq; comptroller of the King's Wardrobe.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 776 Retaining his place of Comptroller of the Household.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 299 The archbishop sent his comptroller to the Prior of Christ Church.

1911 F. W. Moorman in A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. VII. i. 21 He..had risen to eminence among the court officials of James I, and, in the last years of his life, was a secretary of state and comptroller of the royal household.

1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) vii. 217 Brigadier Thakur Jabar Singh, a wealthy Rajput landowner who was the comptroller of the maharaja of Jodhpur's household.

2002 Times 5 Apr. 12/3 Dr Nigel Southward, 61, Apothecary to the Queen Mother, Sir Alastair Aird, 71, her Comptroller, Equerry, and private secretary.., will take their places at Westminster Abbey.

b. A person in an organization whose duties are primarily to oversee expenditure, but may also include overall management; = controller n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > controller

controller1422

comptroller1474

1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §46. m. 7 The collectours of the subsidie of tonage and poundage, and comptrollour therof, in the porte.

c1475 in F. P. Barnard Edward IV's French Exped. (1925) f. 4 (MED) Comptroller of the Ordonance, Will[ia]m roose.

1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §34. m. 12 The custumer or comptroller of the same porte.

1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.vii Should we haue ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the myntes?

1657 in H. Scobell Acts & Ordin. Parl. (1658) c. 30. 512 From henceforth there be..one Officer..nominated and appointed..under the Name and Stile of Postmaster-General of England, and Comptroller of the Post-Office.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) 497 Comptroller of the Cloth and Petty-Custom inward and outward.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 75 Alonso de Quintanilla, comptroller of the finances in Castile.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage ii. 8 My excellent friend Sir Byam Martin, Comptroller of the Navy.

1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 171 An officer in London, called the comptroller in bankruptcy.

1890 Polit. Sci. Q. 5 214 There are but two comptrollers by name in the accounting department.

1922 L. Mayers Federal Service 53 The Commission..requested the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a system of personnel audit in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury.

1965 Life 14 May 140/3 Erwin Witt, for thirty years accountant and comptroller for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), became comptroller.

1993 Washington Post National Weekly 12 Apr. 28/2 No comptrollers existed in a department that had only one actuary on the payroll.

2007 Independent 29 Oct. 37/2 The Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourne, one of ‘them’, a chap in the belly of the establishment.

†2. A person who or thing which exercises control; = controller n. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun]

mastereOE

shepper1377

commandera1400

convoyer1488

comptroller?1536

controllera1540

controller-general1562

bridler1570

comptroller-general1587

disposerc1595

overruler1695

skull1880

?1536 W. Marshall Luther's Images Verye Chrysten Bysshop sig. b.iii^v He was sent by god..to be a comptroller ouer all men.

1540 R. Taverner Princ. Lawes Customes & Estatutes Eng. Prol. sig. A^v The lawe is..the president and comptroller of thinges honest and dishonest.

1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 20 The most part of which tribe..abandon Religion as too rigid and supercillious a Comptroler over them.

1794 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards (new ed.) 11/2 The three knights of battle that never owned a comptroller over them.

†3. A person who keeps a duplicate register or record as a check on a treasurer or person in charge of accounts; = controller n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor

auditor1377

controllera1400

opposera1483

comptrollera1552

auditory1623

a1552 A. Barclay Eclogues (1928) iii. 135 What thinke comtrollers [c1530 controwlers] when..some busy body hauing but small insight comptroll their countes?

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 49 There is taken away..the treasurer;—the comptroller (for a comptroller is hardly necessary where there is no treasurer), etc.

1802 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Apr. in Writings (1903) X. 308 It remains to amalgamate the comptroller and auditor into one.

Compounds

comptroller-general n. (plural comptrollers-general) an official exercising overall responsibility, esp. for expenditure; = controller-general n. at controller n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun]

mastereOE

shepper1377

commandera1400

convoyer1488

comptroller?1536

controllera1540

controller-general1562

bridler1570

comptroller-general1587

disposerc1595

overruler1695

skull1880

society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > senior or chief public officials > [noun] > controller-general

controller-general1562

comptroller-general1587

1587 J. Polemon 2nd Pt. Bk. Battailes sig. Aa.ii On y^e right hand of y^e Admiral was placed the galeon S. Mattheo, wherein was the Generall of the field, & the comptroller generall.

1691 G. Miege New State Eng. iii. xvi. 210 The Commissioners of the Custom-House... Comptroller general of the Accompts, Giles Litcot, Esq.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 339 Grand financier of confiscation, and comptroller general of sacrilege.

1880 19th Cent. Sept. 458 When M. de Blignières and Major Baring entered on their duties as Comptrollers-General of the administration of Egypt, the first difficulty they had to contend with was that of the Floating Debt.

1920 Hearings Comm. National Budget Part 1 (66th Congress 2nd Sess.) 7 There shall be in the Accounting Department a Comptroller General of the United States and an Assistant Comptroller General of the United States, who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

2007 J. M. Spangenburg Life beyond Downsizing i. 13 Even the Comptroller General, David Walker, felt that there was a human capital crisis in the government.

Derivatives

compˈtrollership n. the position or office of comptroller; the period during which such office is held.

ΚΠ

1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §6. m. 5 Thoffice of comptrollershipe of all plees.

1795 J. Farington Diary 17 Feb. (1978) II. 306 He had never applied for the Comptrollership of the Board of Works.

1884 Street Railway Jrnl. Nov. 1/2 State officials..recognized his worth; and during his Comptrollership he was elected Treasurer of the State of New York.

1912 P. Leake Hist. Detroit I. xxxiv. 275 He resigned the comptrollership to accept the presidency.

1961 Michigan Business Rev. May 24/2 This..is undoubtedly one of the reasons why the military have found it hard to accept the services of comptrollership [sc. of the Navy].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	comptroller
释义	comptrollern. Brit. /kənˈtrəʊlə/, /kəmpˈtrəʊlə/, /ˌkɒmpˈtrəʊlə/, U.S. /kənˈtroʊlər/, /ˌkɑm(p)ˈtroʊlər/ Forms: late Middle English compterolleur, late Middle English–1500s comptrollour, late Middle English– comptroller, 1500s comtroller, 1500s–1600s comptroler, 1500s–1600s comptrowller. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: controller n. Etymology: Alteration of controller n., by association of cont- , count- in that word with compt, variant of the etymologically unrelated verb count v.; compare β. forms at account v. and β. forms at account n.), and compare also β. forms at control v. and β. forms at control n.In later use, the retention of comptroller over controller in specific official titles was probably partly due to a desire to dissociate the title semantically from control v. With the form comptrollour compare -our suffix. 1. Frequently used in specific official titles. a. A senior official within a household; = controller n. 2b. Now chiefly British and used in the households of the sovereign and members of the royal family. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > controller controller1432 comptroller1433 1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §18. m. 15 Or any other greet officier of household, as steward, chamberlein, tresorer or compterolleur. 1536 Answere Kynges Hyghnes to Rebelles Yorkeshire sig. A.iv^v Syr wyllyam Poulet Comptroller of our house. c1550 (?a1400) in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 782) (1790) 3 (MED) The Comptroller of the housholde. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 67 For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guilford This night to be Comptrollers . View more context for this quotation 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Sept. (1948) II. 20 Sir John Holland, comptroller of the houshold. 1766 Gentleman's Mag. May 266/1 Thomas Gilbert, Esq; comptroller of the King's Wardrobe. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 776 Retaining his place of Comptroller of the Household. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 299 The archbishop sent his comptroller to the Prior of Christ Church. 1911 F. W. Moorman in A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. VII. i. 21 He..had risen to eminence among the court officials of James I, and, in the last years of his life, was a secretary of state and comptroller of the royal household. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) vii. 217 Brigadier Thakur Jabar Singh, a wealthy Rajput landowner who was the comptroller of the maharaja of Jodhpur's household. 2002 Times 5 Apr. 12/3 Dr Nigel Southward, 61, Apothecary to the Queen Mother, Sir Alastair Aird, 71, her Comptroller, Equerry, and private secretary.., will take their places at Westminster Abbey. b. A person in an organization whose duties are primarily to oversee expenditure, but may also include overall management; = controller n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > controller controller1422 comptroller1474 1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §46. m. 7 The collectours of the subsidie of tonage and poundage, and comptrollour therof, in the porte. c1475 in F. P. Barnard Edward IV's French Exped. (1925) f. 4 (MED) Comptroller of the Ordonance, Will[ia]m roose. 1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §34. m. 12 The custumer or comptroller of the same porte. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.vii Should we haue ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the myntes? 1657 in H. Scobell Acts & Ordin. Parl. (1658) c. 30. 512 From henceforth there be..one Officer..nominated and appointed..under the Name and Stile of Postmaster-General of England, and Comptroller of the Post-Office. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) 497 Comptroller of the Cloth and Petty-Custom inward and outward. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 75 Alonso de Quintanilla, comptroller of the finances in Castile. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage ii. 8 My excellent friend Sir Byam Martin, Comptroller of the Navy. 1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 171 An officer in London, called the comptroller in bankruptcy. 1890 Polit. Sci. Q. 5 214 There are but two comptrollers by name in the accounting department. 1922 L. Mayers Federal Service 53 The Commission..requested the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a system of personnel audit in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury. 1965 Life 14 May 140/3 Erwin Witt, for thirty years accountant and comptroller for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), became comptroller. 1993 Washington Post National Weekly 12 Apr. 28/2 No comptrollers existed in a department that had only one actuary on the payroll. 2007 Independent 29 Oct. 37/2 The Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourne, one of ‘them’, a chap in the belly of the establishment. †2. A person who or thing which exercises control; = controller n. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] mastereOE shepper1377 commandera1400 convoyer1488 comptroller?1536 controllera1540 controller-general1562 bridler1570 comptroller-general1587 disposerc1595 overruler1695 skull1880 ?1536 W. Marshall Luther's Images Verye Chrysten Bysshop sig. b.iii^v He was sent by god..to be a comptroller ouer all men. 1540 R. Taverner Princ. Lawes Customes & Estatutes Eng. Prol. sig. A^v The lawe is..the president and comptroller of thinges honest and dishonest. 1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 20 The most part of which tribe..abandon Religion as too rigid and supercillious a Comptroler over them. 1794 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards (new ed.) 11/2 The three knights of battle that never owned a comptroller over them. †3. A person who keeps a duplicate register or record as a check on a treasurer or person in charge of accounts; = controller n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor auditor1377 controllera1400 opposera1483 comptrollera1552 auditory1623 a1552 A. Barclay Eclogues (1928) iii. 135 What thinke comtrollers [c1530 controwlers] when..some busy body hauing but small insight comptroll their countes? 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 49 There is taken away..the treasurer;—the comptroller (for a comptroller is hardly necessary where there is no treasurer), etc. 1802 T. Jefferson Let. 1 Apr. in Writings (1903) X. 308 It remains to amalgamate the comptroller and auditor into one. Compounds comptroller-general n. (plural comptrollers-general) an official exercising overall responsibility, esp. for expenditure; = controller-general n. at controller n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] mastereOE shepper1377 commandera1400 convoyer1488 comptroller?1536 controllera1540 controller-general1562 bridler1570 comptroller-general1587 disposerc1595 overruler1695 skull1880 society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > senior or chief public officials > [noun] > controller-general controller-general1562 comptroller-general1587 1587 J. Polemon 2nd Pt. Bk. Battailes sig. Aa.ii On y^e right hand of y^e Admiral was placed the galeon S. Mattheo, wherein was the Generall of the field, & the comptroller generall. 1691 G. Miege New State Eng. iii. xvi. 210 The Commissioners of the Custom-House... Comptroller general of the Accompts, Giles Litcot, Esq. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 339 Grand financier of confiscation, and comptroller general of sacrilege. 1880 19th Cent. Sept. 458 When M. de Blignières and Major Baring entered on their duties as Comptrollers-General of the administration of Egypt, the first difficulty they had to contend with was that of the Floating Debt. 1920 Hearings Comm. National Budget Part 1 (66th Congress 2nd Sess.) 7 There shall be in the Accounting Department a Comptroller General of the United States and an Assistant Comptroller General of the United States, who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. 2007 J. M. Spangenburg Life beyond Downsizing i. 13 Even the Comptroller General, David Walker, felt that there was a human capital crisis in the government. Derivatives compˈtrollership n. the position or office of comptroller; the period during which such office is held. ΚΠ 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §6. m. 5 Thoffice of comptrollershipe of all plees. 1795 J. Farington Diary 17 Feb. (1978) II. 306 He had never applied for the Comptrollership of the Board of Works. 1884 Street Railway Jrnl. Nov. 1/2 State officials..recognized his worth; and during his Comptrollership he was elected Treasurer of the State of New York. 1912 P. Leake Hist. Detroit I. xxxiv. 275 He resigned the comptrollership to accept the presidency. 1961 Michigan Business Rev. May 24/2 This..is undoubtedly one of the reasons why the military have found it hard to accept the services of comptrollership [sc. of the Navy]. 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