accountant

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
4. One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one

Adj

Accountable.

Concepts

comptable

expert-comptable

compte

contrôleur

économe

responsable

trésorier

addition

comptabilisable

comptabilité

Synonymes

bookkeeper

treasurer

book-keeper

clerk

comptroller

accounting

paymaster

auditor

cashier

controller

accounts clerk

accounting clerk

financial accountant

account

writer

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Scribner

account manager

management accounts

ledger-keeper

one who writes

accomptable

accountancy

actuary

bill

bursar

examiner

finance

notary

public

reckoner

reckoning

scribe

secretary

teller

Traductions

contable

Buchhalter

λογιστής

contabile

ragioniere

contador

contabilista

boekhouder

contador

muhasebeci

λογίστρια

Buchhalterin

accountant

comptable

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: -

In summary

From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.