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Webster 1913 Edition

Accountant

Ac-count′ant

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
accomptant
, OF.
acontant
, p. pr.]
1.
One who renders account; one accountable.
2.
A reckoner.
3.
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.

Ac-count′ant

,
Adj.
Accountable.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Accountant

ACCOUNT'ANT

,
Noun.
One skilled in mercantile accounts; more generally, a person who keeps accounts; an officer in a public office who has charge of the accounts. In Great Britain, an officer in the court of chancery, who receives money and pays it to the bank, is call accountant-general.

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