accountant
IPA: ʌkˈaʊntʌnt
noun
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
- (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one
adjective
- (obsolete, with to) Accountable.
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Examples of "accountant" in Sentences
- One of the liquidators was the accountant.
- The accountant is on-going since Mexico's tax laws are numerous.
- My accountant is examining all the records before approaching SS.
- Ugh. So I now I need to add "home repair" to the list of qualities I need in a spouse ( "accountant" is already there as well).