accountant
English
editAlternative forms
edit(one who handles financial records): acc.
Etymology
editFrom Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
Pronunciation
edit- (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/, [ə.ˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editaccountant (plural accountants)
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
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Quotations
edit- [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.]
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: accountant
- → Indonesian: akuntan
Translations
editone who renders account; one accountable
a reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
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one who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts
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one whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another
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References
edit- “accountant, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Adjective
editaccountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)
- (obsolete, with to) Accountable. [15th–19th c.]
Translations
editaccountable — see accountable
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English accountant.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaccountant m (plural accountants)
- an accountant; an account-keeper or auditor
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Indonesian: akuntan
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