Definition of "accountant"

accountant

/ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/

noun
plural accountants
1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
3. (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
4. (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
  Quotations
  Super Nintendo, Sega GenesisWhen I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this50-inch screen, money-green leather sofaGot two rides, a limousine with a chauffeurPhone bill about two G's flatNo need to worry, my accountant handles thatAnd my whole crew is loungin'Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'
  1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy‎ (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.
5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one
adjective
comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant
1. (obsolete, with to) Accountable.