Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who counts or reckons; an accountant; a ‘teller.’
- noun One who keeps or renders, or is required to render, an account, as a steward of his stewardship.
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- noun A person providing an
account of events. - noun A person providing an
accounting ofexpenditure or other actions.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He lets on he's just coming that way on accounter business, but his face gets a kinder red, and Ma laughs a glad little laugh.
William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks
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Many's en many's de time, "continued the old man, reflectively," dat I hatter take'n bresh dat boy on accounter his 'buzin' en beatin 'dem yuther boys.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Hollywood Dave may have outed himself as a muli-accounter, Jayde Nicole is suing over a photo, and it seems there is some confusion over the hostess for the PokerStars NAPT.
Poker News 2010
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He looked in pain as he had accounter this before. .or did he?
Ultimate List 2009
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Madoff will be it for the Bush years, as was creative accounter Kenneth Lay in the dot. com boom, inside-trader Ivan Boesky in the Reagan Era, and stock swindling Robber Barons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould in our first Gilded Age.
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Madoff will be it for the Bush years, as was creative accounter Kenneth Lay in the dot. com boom, inside-trader Ivan Boesky in the Reagan Era, and stock swindling Robber Barons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould in our first Gilded Age.
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One of the most notable cases has been serial multi-accounter Josh Field being banned for life.
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