accountant
accountant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A reckoner.
- 2.One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. 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.
- 3.Accountable. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- accountable
- acquit
- actuary
- almoner
- and
- arithmetic
- assets
- audit
- auditor
- balance
- banker
- bean
- bearer
- bill
- book
- bookkeeper
- bookkeeping
- bring
- budget
- bursar
- bursary
- cambist
- carry
- cash
- cashier
- cast
- changer
- chartered
- check
- commercial
- cook
- counter
- credit
- creditor
- current
- day
- debit
- debtor
- depositary
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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