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Comptroller of the Currency   /kəmtrˈoʊlər əv ðə kˈərənsi/   Listen
Comptroller of the Currency

noun
1.
A United States federal official who regulates the national banks.
2.
The agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency.






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"Comptroller of the Currency" Quotes from Famous Books



... evidence showing that few laws were ever more openly proposed, year after year, and squarely understood than the Coinage Act of 1873, will require but a moment. It had been for years elaborately considered and reported upon by the Deputy Comptroller of the Currency. The special attention of Congress was called to the bill and the report by the Secretary of the Treasury in his annual re-ports for 1870, 1871, and 1872, where the "new features" of the bill, "discontinuing the coinage of the silver dollar," were ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various



Words linked to "Comptroller of the Currency" :   agency, government agency, treasury, office, Treasury Department, federal agency, United States Treasury, Department of the Treasury, functionary, official, bureau, authority



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