accountant
noun
- practitioner of accountancy or accounting
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊn.tənt/ / [əˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]
adj
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
- Accountable.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- 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'”
- A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one.