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Accountant
//əˈkaʊn.tənt// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Accountable. obsolete
Noun
- 1 One who renders account; one accountable.
- 2 someone who maintains and audits business accounts wordnet
- 3 A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- 4 One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- 5 One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this 50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur Phone bill about two G's flat No need to worry, my accountant handles that And my whole crew is loungin' Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'"
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- 6 A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one euphemistic
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
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