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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that keeps, audits, and inspects the financial records of individuals or business concerns and prepares financial and tax reports.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is skilled in or who keeps accounts; one who makes the keeping or examination of accounts his profession; an officer in a public office who has charge of the accounts. Also spelled accomptant.
  • Giving account; accountable; responsible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who renders account; one accountable.
  • noun A reckoner.
  • noun One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  • noun 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.
  • adjective obsolete Accountable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who maintains and audits business accounts

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  • This job title is used by sex workers (and others who don't want to talk about their jobs or can't for censorship/safety reasons). https://youtu.be/psCTNvhF9cE

    August 2, 2022

  • I knew a girl who used to say she worked at the Pancake Parlour, which was a well-known Melbourne (Australia) pancake restaurant. It was her code for massage parlour, which was the term used at the time for illegal brothels. I sensed at the time - it was about 1987 - from the way she said it that others also used the Pancake Parlour label, or indeed pizza parlour.


    August 3, 2022

  • Plot twist: I worked at the Pancake Parlour for a while, probably my first proper job. I was a dishwasher.

    August 3, 2022