accountant

Speech parts

1. accountant - Noun

2. accountant - Adjective

Meaning

A reckoner.

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

Accountable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

comptroller controller chamberlain countable estimator booker accountancy purser book account historian clerk chronicler auditor examiner

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Antonyms

complainant

Hypernyms

occupation bourgeois businessperson

Hyponyms

auditor CPA bookkeeper chartered accountant certified public accountant bean counter

Phrases with the word

state-licensed accountant charted accountant state-certified accountant certified general accountant certified management accountant certified practising accountant

Examples

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. Mario Cuomo

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Arundhati Roy

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. Harold Innis

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one? Jackie Mason

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. Omar Epps

A wife is a luxury... A smart accountant a necessity. Klingon Proverb

Close letter words and terms

accountableness accountably accountancy accountant general accountantlike accountantship