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Definition of Comptroller of the Currency
1. Noun. A United States federal official who regulates the national banks.
2. Noun. The agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency.
Generic synonyms: Agency, Authority, Bureau, Federal Agency, Government Agency, Office
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comptroller Of The Currency
Literary usage of Comptroller of the Currency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"BILL INTRODUCED AND Disc'-««i"i IN SENATE. — DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE. — BILL PASSED.
— HUGH MCCULLOCH OF INDIANA APPOINTED Comptroller of the Currency. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Pursuant to the requirement of law the Comptroller of the Currency appointed a
special agent to ascertain whether the facts set forth in the protest wore ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"This because not alone was the intent to deceive the Comptroller of the Currency
not embraced, but also the intent to deceive an agent appointed to examine ..."
4. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"The statistics and information of most value are printed in the annual reports
of the comptroller of the currency. For the destruction of papers considered ..."
5. Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Commments by Hugh McCulloch (1900)
"... States—Am requested by Secretary Chase to become Comptroller of the Currency—My
Connection with the Bunk of the State of Indiana Dissolved—George \\~. ..."
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