To check, regulate, or verify accounts and finances (archaic form of 'control' in accounting contexts).
Variant spelling of 'control' derived from Old French 'contrerole' (counter-roll, a checking document). The 'compt-' spelling reflects the Latin 'computare' (to count).
This spelling preserves a ghost of how English absorbed both French and Latin: 'comptrol' shows 'count' ancestry while 'control' hides it, but they're etymologically twins.
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