Accountant

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ac=count=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

Accountant, n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.].

•  One who renders account; one accountable.  [1913 Webster]
•  A reckoner.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.  [1913 Webster]

Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Accountant, a. 

 Accountable.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Accountant, n. a professional keeper or inspector of accounts.

Etymology

legal F f. pres. part. of OF aconter ACCOUNT

THESAURUS

Accountant

CA, CPA, abacist, accountant general, actuary, amanuensis, archivist, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, bookkeeper, bursar, calculator, cashier, cashkeeper, certified public accountant, chamberlain, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, curator, depositary, depository, documentalist, engraver, estimator, figurer, filing clerk, financial officer, journalizer, librarian, liquidator, marker, notary, notary public, paymaster, prothonotary, purse bearer, purser, receiver, reckoner, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, statistician, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, timekeeper, treasurer, trustee

ROGET THESAURUS

Accountant

Numeration

N numeration, numbering, pagination, tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation, calculation, calculus, algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy, measurement, statistics, arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions, differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus, calculus of differences, dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation, account, notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan, adding machine, cash register, electronic calculator, calculator, computer, arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist, mathematician, statistician, geometer, programmer, accountant, auditor, numeral, numerical, arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable, commensurable, commensurate, incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite, quantitatively, arithmetically, measurably, in numbers.

Treasurer

N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.

Accounts

N accounts, accompts, commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic, statistics, money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account, books, account book, ledger, day book, cash book, pass book, journal, debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account, account current, balance, balance sheet, compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts, bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning, audit, accountant, auditor, actuary, bookkeeper, bean counter, financier, accounting party, chartered accountant, certified accountant, accounting firm, auditing firm, monetary, accountable, accounting.