Definition of "receiver-general" [receiver-general]

• 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. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Michel, the receiver-general, became bankrupt, and Voltaire lost a considerable sum of money in consequence."
• "And now, she who had declined to open her doors to the receiver-general, welcomed a mere controller of excise!"
• "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"