noun
- plural of comptroller; financial officers responsible for supervising expenditures and maintaining financial records in an organization
Usage: formal; business
Examples
- The company hired two new comptrollers to oversee different divisions.
- State comptrollers must submit annual budget reports to the legislature.
- The comptrollers reviewed all expense accounts before approving payments.
- Municipal comptrollers ensure proper use of taxpayer funds.
- Corporate comptrollers work closely with auditing firms.
- The comptrollers discovered several accounting discrepancies during their review.