accountant

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Compare French accomptant, Old French acontant, present participle

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /əˈkaʊntənt/

[edit] Noun

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Singular
accountant

Plural
accountants

accountant (plural accountants)

  1. One who renders account; one accountable.
  2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
  3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  4. One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.

[edit] Translations

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[edit] Derived terms

  • Accountant general: the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England

[edit] Adjective

accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)

Positive
accountant

Comparative
more accountant

Superlative
most accountant

  1. (obsolete, Shakespearian) accountable