Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that keeps, audits, and inspects the financial records of individuals or business concerns and prepares financial and tax reports.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. One who renders account; one accountable.
- n. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
- n. accounting One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- n. accounting One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
- adj. obsolete accountable
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who renders account; one accountable.
- n. A reckoner.
- n. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- adj. obsolete Accountable.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts
Examples
“Ugh. So I now I need to add "home repair" to the list of qualities I need in a spouse ( "accountant" is already there as well).”
“The accountant is on-going since Mexico's tax laws are numerous.”
“My accountant is examining all the records before approaching SS.”
“Lange hired an accountant from the company's inception.”
“The attack by Democrats on outsourcing is "one of the most important reasons some Indians are supporting Republicans," said Namrita Nelson, an Indian-born accountant from the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Ill., who formed the Indian-American Republican Coalition this summer.”
“I lived with a man for nine years, and just never -- once he said let ` s get married and I called my accountant and he said, are you out of your mind?”
“ROMANS: I am actually, only because as soon as I get things I start making a pile and I call the accountant right away, but you make a good point that your accountant or tax preparer can't just guess what your gross income is.”
“I called the accountant who did the budget, Sandy Davies of O'Connor Davies, and was told that Mr. Davies never saw any receipts for any job.”
“US prosecutors have charged the long-term accountant of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff with fraud.”
“On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Madoff's long-term accountant, David Friehling, with fraud.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘accountant’.
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CONT - general terms
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
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Who hid the keys?
Words for people who like to hide ideas, objects, and other living things
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occupations
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Job names
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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-ant
performing an act; person who performs; impersonal physical agent
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