ACCOUNTANT
NOUNS
► ACCOUNTANCY originally, a job or position as an accountant; later, a firm of accountants → 1860
NOUNS, PERSON
► ABACIST a person who uses an abacus in casting accounts; an arithmetician, accountant, or calculator → 1387
► ACCOMPTANT an accountant → 1539 obs.
► ACCOUNTANT a person who professionally makes up or takes charge of accounts, esp. within the context of a business; a bookkeeper; an officer in a public office who has charge of accounts → 1539
► ACCOUNT CASTER a person who casts or reckons up accounts → 1580 obs.
► BEAN-COUNTER an accountant, esp. one who compiles statistical records or accounts; hence widely used as a term of contempt for financial planners or statisticians, viewed as bring more interested in figures than in the creative aspects of the businesses they serve, or for anyone excessively concerned with accounts or figures → 1975 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► MUTSUDDY an accountant, a clerk, an administrator → 1683 chiefly Anglo-Indian
► NUMBER-CHASER an accountant → 1938 US sl.
► NUMBER-CRUNCHER an accountant or statistician → 1971 US sl.
► PUFF-ADDER an accountant → 1930 Royal Air Force, chiefly officers’ usage
► RATIONAL in Roman Antiquity: an accountant or auditor → 1610 obs.
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