Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principal or responsible accountant in a public office or in a mercantile or banking house or company; in England, formerly also an officer in chancery who received all moneys lodged in court and deposited the same in the Bank of England.
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Examples
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Appointed accountant-general of Hadassah in 1929, he later became Assistant Director-General of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Palestine.
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He said the president has directed the country's accountant-general to release the money immediately to the government of Governor
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National Treasury accountant-general Ismail Mamoojee said government was continually trying to build new controls into the system.
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Asked why Nedcor was not among the tenderers, Mankodi Moitse, the provincial accountant-general, said the bank had outlined its limits with regard to representivity and systems structure in a written document to the government.
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The accountant-general had detected irregular payments of a further R44,827 million within two days and referred the cheques back to the banking sector before the money was paid out, he said in reply to a question from Ken Andrew (DP).
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Daniel Matebesi, accountant-general of the Lesotho Treasury, his deputy Putseto Makotoane, and Moits'upeli Letsie, an engineer in Lesotho's Home Affairs Ministry, are charged with the theft of more than R2 million.
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Your Lordship will remember, that evidence was given of the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery having made purchases of stock on this day; it might have been stated on the face of this record, that it was known the accountant-general of the Court of
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Chancery would purchase stock on the day in question, for he purchased most days, and that the offence was committed with a view to injure the said accountant-general, or the persons in whose behalf he purchases.
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Therefore the allegation might have been, that it was to injure the accountant-general, in his character of agent for those persons on whose behalf he purchased stock on the particular day.
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_ The stock is purchased, my Lord, to the credit of a particular cause, the accountant-general being the agent in the transaction for the suitors in that cause.
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