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- noun Alternative spelling of
bean counter .
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Examples
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I like the controlled finance environment; I don't like the term beancounter, but someone's got to count the beans and I like being a strong business partner with those blocks of experience. "
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He laughs at being called a "beancounter" and an outsider in the advertising world; he bemoans being stereotyped as a north London Jew; he makes repeated, slightly awkward jokes about his short stature and later sends an email apologising again for turning up late.
Sir Martin Sorrell: advertising man who made the industry's biggest pitch 2010
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The Isakowitz type of administrator is more fearsome to the Florida workforce because of the role of beancounter style NASA management in the Shuttle accidents.
Bill Nelson Continues To Block NASA Administrator Nominees - NASA Watch 2009
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So I'm trying to run up the tally for Andy's beancounter, whoever that may be at the NYT.
Andy Revkin, out in the cold EliRabett 2010
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Whilst the judges deliberate over Marine McWilliam and Cpl Duncan who has their compensation increased considerably from the original beancounter decision due to the complexity of their injuries, John Salisbury-Baker doesn't have the posibility of a compensation limit.
PTSD or bad job? 2009
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What beancounter couldn't get it through their head that it should've been featured here?
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Begich is a friendly beancounter, not a cage-fighter.
DSCC Chief Schumer: We'll Keep Republicans On Defense All Over The Map 2009
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Whilst the judges deliberate over Marine McWilliam and Cpl Duncan who has their compensation increased considerably from the original beancounter decision due to the complexity of their injuries, John Salisbury-Baker doesn't have the posibility of a compensation limit.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Whoever the NRA beancounter was that allowed HB 1531 a mention on a long list of supposedly pro-gun bills, he ought to fired.
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So next time some HM Govt beancounter refuses to supply some drug on the NHS due to "cost", or some OAP dies on a trolley in some run down NHS deathcamp; just remember than the lives of UK citizens come a poor second to that of Pakistani prostitutes and maternity units in China.
UK to waste 480 million in aid to Pakistan prostitute, thanks to The Department for International Development (DFID). FIDO The Dog 2008
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