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accountants' lamps

accountants' lamps is the plural of accountant's lamp.

Meaning of accountant's lamp

Noun

accountant's lamp (plural accountant's lamps or accountants' lamps)

  1. Synonym of banker's lamp.
    • Spencer has left the door to his study open. I turn on the green accountant's lamp. A thousand times I have come into this room, but never with the intent of finding something.2003, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, Atria Books export edition, Atria Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 237
    Synonyms:
    banker's lamp

Questions about accountants' lamps

What is accountants' lamps the plural of?
Accountants' lamps is the plural of accountant's lamp.

Words near accountants' lamps in the dictionary

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

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