accountant

(one who handles financial records): acc.

From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account +‎ -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkaʊn.tənt/, [əˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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accountant (plural accountants)

1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
4. (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
5. (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
   • 1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy‎^[1] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:

     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'

6. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one

• [1900, Francis William Pixley, Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London).‎^[2], volume 1, page 4:

  The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter, which took its origin from the Latin word computare. The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.]

• account

• → Dutch: accountant
  • → Indonesian: akuntan

• “accountant, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)

1. (obsolete, with to) Accountable. [15th–19th c.]

Borrowed from English accountant.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈkɑu̯n.tənt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ac‧coun‧tant

accountant m (plural accountants, no diminutive)

1. an accountant; an account-keeper or auditor

• account

• → Indonesian: akuntan