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beancounter

beancounter is the alternative form of bean counter.

Meaning of bean counter

Noun

bean counter (plural bean counters)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, mildly) A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general.
    • As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.1985 August 2, “Editorial: Sniffing at DOC health costs”, in Gainsville Sun, retrieved 13 Sep 2009, page 14A

Forms of beancounter

pluralbeancounters

Questions about beancounter

What is beancounter the alternative form of?
Beancounter is the alternative form of bean counter.

Words near beancounter in the dictionary

  1. beanburgers
  2. beancake
  3. beancakes
  4. beancaper
  5. beancount
  6. beancounter
  7. beancounters
  8. beancounting
  9. beancounts
  10. beancurd
  11. beancurds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beancounter (page history and authors); bean counter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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