Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In some countries or states, an officer who receives the public revenues in general or in a particular territory: in some of the United States, an additional title of the State treasurer.
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Examples
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To launch the poet into society, he gave a dinner, and asked all the authorities to meet him — the prefect, the receiver-general, the colonel in command of the garrison, the head of the Naval School, the president of the
Two Poets 2007
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If by chance the wife of a receiver-general of finances was to have this chapter read at her toilette by the bel-esprit of the house, she would have a strange contempt for the Romans of the three first centuries, and would not allow a Manlius, Curius, or Fabius to enter her antechamber, should he come on foot, and not have wherewithal to take his part at play.
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He was on visiting terms with the authorities — the general in command, the prefect, the receiver-general, and the bishop but in every house he was frigid, polite, and slightly supercilious, like a man out of his proper place awaiting the favors of power.
Two Poets 2007
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He was on visiting terms with the authorities — the general in command, the prefect, the receiver-general, and the bishop but in every house he was frigid, polite, and slightly supercilious, like a man out of his proper place awaiting the favors of power.
Two Poets 2007
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The only outsider intimate there was the bishop; the prefect was admitted twice or thrice in a year, the receiver-general was never received at all; Mme. de Bargeton would go to concerts and “at homes” at his house, but she never accepted invitations to dinner.
Two Poets 2007
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The only outsider intimate there was the bishop; the prefect was admitted twice or thrice in a year, the receiver-general was never received at all; Mme. de Bargeton would go to concerts and “at homes” at his house, but she never accepted invitations to dinner.
Two Poets 2007
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And now, she who had declined to open her doors to the receiver-general, welcomed a mere controller of excise!
Two Poets 2007
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Michel, the receiver-general, became bankrupt, and Voltaire lost a considerable sum of money in consequence.
Voltaire 2007
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To launch the poet into society, he gave a dinner, and asked all the authorities to meet him — the prefect, the receiver-general, the colonel in command of the garrison, the head of the Naval School, the president of the
Two Poets 2007
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And now, she who had declined to open her doors to the receiver-general, welcomed a mere controller of excise!
Two Poets 2007
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