accountant.
One who renders account; one accountable.
Meaning & usage
One who renders account; one accountable.
A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
Accountable.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
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