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accountant

/əˈkaʊn.tənt/ noun B1
  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. A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one.

Plural accountants

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Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 15 · B2
I am forty-five years old and work as an accountant.
A New Melody at Forty-Five, p. 1 · B1

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