accountant

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/ əˈkaʊn tnt /

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noun

a person whose profession is inspecting and auditing personal or commercial accounts and providing financial advice to the account holders.

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Origin of accountant

First recorded in 1425–75; account + -ant; replacing late Middle English accomptant, from Middle French, Old French acuntant, present participle of acunter “to account”

OTHER WORDS FROM accountant

ac·count·ant·ship, noun

Words nearby accountant

accoucheuse, account, accountability, accountable, accountancy, accountant, account book, account current, account day, account executive, account for

How to use accountant in a sentence

Even hiring an accountant to pull together the paperwork to apply for a break on his $1,200 rent from the building’s management costs several hundred dollars that he doesn’t have.
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One of his more charming performances was as Saajan, an older accountant nearing retirement in The Lunchbox.
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The contact number listed on the group’s tax forms belongs to its accountant, Robert Watkins, who did not return a message requesting comment.
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Ash had always gotten good grades and was on track to become a chartered accountant, a far more stable occupation in a country where esports is an alien concept.
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Scores of lawyers and accountants investigate the potential nominees, Brazile says, and once it was down to three candidates, the top campaign staff weighed in.
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The accountant thought it was me and was calling to tell me to go easy.
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“The situation is bad,” 28-year-old former accountant and Donetsk native Victor told me.
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Kenneth Yormark, forensic accountant based in New York, says its whereabouts is still a mystery.
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According to the announcement, van der Sloot will wed 24-year-old Leidy Carol Figueroa Uceda, an accountant who lives in Lima.
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He took along his brother, Roberto, who was the cartel's accountant.
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There was another personality that loomed large, in those years, on the Midland—Samuel Swarbrick, the accountant.
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Paul de Gery knew this through Joyeuse, who was now a stock-broker's accountant and well up in the doings on the Bourse.
The Nabob|Alphonse Daudet
The accountant-general acts as a piece of machinery would act.
Social Comptabilism, Cheque and Clearing Service & Proposed Law|Ernest Solvay
What has preceded shows how simple, unobtrusive, passive is the part played by the accountant-general.
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They would need the best accountant they could find for the quick work they had promised Braceway.
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British Dictionary definitions for accountant

accountant

/ (əˈkaʊntənt) /

noun

a person concerned with the maintenance and audit of business accounts and the preparation of consultant reports in tax and finance

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