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accountants

accountants is the plural of accountant.

Meaning of accountant

Noun

accountant (plural accountants)

  1. One who renders account; one accountable.
  2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
  3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  4. 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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      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...1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.
  5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one.

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Phrases with accountants

Questions about accountants

What is accountants the plural of?
Accountants is the plural of accountant.

Words near accountants in the dictionary

  1. accountant's letter
  2. accountant's letters
  3. accountant's lien
  4. accountant's liens
  5. accountantlike
  6. accountants
  7. accountants general
  8. accountants' lamps
  9. accountantship
  10. accountantships
  11. accounted

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