accountant

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• Accountable.

Origin

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