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Origin of accountant
1425–75; account + -ant; replacing late Middle English accomptant <Middle French, Old French acuntant, present participle of acunter to account
OTHER WORDS FROM accountant
ac·count·ant·ship, noun
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accoucheuse, account, accountability, accountable, accountancy, accountant, account book, account current, account day, account executive, account for
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Even hiring an accountant to pull together the paperwork to apply for a break on his $1,200 rent from the building’s management costs several hundred dollars that he doesn’t have. The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save | by Lydia DePillis, Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel | September 12, 2020 | ProPublica
One of his more charming performances was as Saajan, an older accountant nearing retirement in The Lunchbox. Everything Our Editors Loved in August | The Editors | September 10, 2020 | Outside Online
The contact number listed on the group’s tax forms belongs to its accountant, Robert Watkins, who did not return a message requesting comment. Federal Prosecutors Have Steve Bannon’s Murky Nonprofit in Their Sights | by Yeganeh Torbati | August 24, 2020 | ProPublica
Ash had always gotten good grades and was on track to become a chartered accountant, a far more stable occupation in a country where esports is an alien concept.