accountant
noun
a person whose profession is inspecting and auditing personal or commercial accounts and providing financial advice to the account holders.
accountants
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pluralof accountant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Upon protest, Warner Bros. reversed course and sold the movie, which did little to allay concerns that its favorite creatives are accountants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The first is whether cloud companies start reporting a separate lifespan for these chips, which would mean their accountants concluded the hardware is genuinely different.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once seen as nerdy and questionable marriage material, employees of those highflying memory companies are now at least on par with lawyers, doctors and accountants in the dating pool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
His campaign manager said Friday that accountants are still working on the new filing.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Consequently, we frequently find senior mathematical, engineering, and scientific people ardently wooed by industry and then subordinated to newly minted M.B.A.s and accountants.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
