accountant

[Ac*count·ant]

An accountant is a person whose job involves keeping financial records for a business. To be a great accountant, you've got to be good at math.

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One who renders account; one accountable.

Noun
someone who maintains and audits business accounts


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.


Accountant

Ac*count"ant , n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.] 1. One who renders account; one accountable. 2. A reckoner. 3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn 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.

Accountant

Ac*count"ant, a. Accountable. [Obs.] Shak.

One who renders account; one accountable.

Accountable.

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Usage Examples

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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Other Usage Examples

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

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