accountant

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English

Alternative forms

(one who handles financial records): acc.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account +‎ -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/,
  • (file)

Noun

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accountant (plural accountants)

  1. One who renders account; one accountable.
  2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
  3. (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  4. (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
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      Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
      When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
      50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
      Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
      Phone bill about two G's flat
      No need to worry, my accountant handles that
      And my whole crew is loungin'
      Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'
  5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one

Quotations

  • , volume 1, page 4:
    The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter, which took its origin from the Latin word computare. The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.]

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Descendants

  • Dutch: accountant
    • Indonesian: akuntan

Translations

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Adjective

accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)

  1. (obsolete, with to) Accountable.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English accountant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈkɑu̯n.tənt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ac‧coun‧tant

Noun

accountant m (plural accountants)

  1. An accountant; an account-keeper or auditor.

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Descendants