Accountant
[ə'kaʊnt(ə)nt] or [ə'kaʊntənt]
Definition
(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.
(a.) Accountable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Book-keeper, expert in accounts.
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Examples
- He was my true son, repeats the old gentleman, folding his bread and butter on his knee, a good accountant, and died fifteen years ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Skiffins (that's her brother) is an accountant and agent. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am an accountant, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many of the old operators, taken on out of good-nature, were poor exhibitors and worse accountants, and at last they and the machines with which they had been intrusted faded from sight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was the beginning of the slide rule, which has been found of invaluable aid to accountants and engineers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first machines were called Registering Accountants, and Arithmometers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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