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ACCOUNTANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who maintains and audits business accounts
Synonyms:
accountant; comptroller; controller
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("accountant" is a kind of...):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accountant"):
auditor (a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization)
bean counter (an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures)
bookkeeper (someone who records the transactions of a business)
certified public accountant; CPA (an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state)
chartered accountant (a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter)
cost accountant (a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production)
Derivation:
account (keep an account of)
accountancy (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)
accountantship (the position of accountant)
Context examples:
You can choose a new accountant, agent, publicist, lawyer, or another person with whom you can form a close relationship and together build a successful business.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You may be gathering up your receipts for your accountant to prepare for filing your tax return or, if you are getting married, to decide how you will handle household finances.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you have not filed your taxes, this new moon will motivate you to get together with your accountant—you might see a refund!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
As you enter February, you still seem busy gathering records to show your accountant, and you may have been working on calculations since last month, January.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They may be delighted by a romantic alliance or grateful for the collaborators they have hired (an agent, manager, publicist, accountant, lawyer, etc.).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It’s a good time to hire a new accountant, financial advisor, manager, agent, nanny, publicist, social media director, or writing partner—you get the idea.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Speaking of taxes, you may be motivated to complete your 2019 taxes and begin to gather your receipts to send to your accountant.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Start gathering your receipts to give to your accountant if you haven’t done so already.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Many Cancers work with a number of collaborators in business, from agents and managers to publicists, social media managers, lawyers, and accountants.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Or you may be working with financial matters around the clock, say, if you are an accountant, broker, or day trader.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
