accountant
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English, from Law French acuntant, present participle of Old French aconter. Compare accomptant. See also account.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈkaʊntənt/
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia accountant (plural accountants)
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
- One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
[edit] Quotations
- 1900, Francis William Pixley, Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London).Archive.org, 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.
[edit] Translations
one who renders account; one accountable
a reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
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one who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts
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one whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another
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[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Adjective
accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)
- (obsolete, Shakespearian) accountable
