Accountant vs. Counter

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Accountantnoun

One who renders account; one accountable.

Accountantnoun

A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

Accountantnoun

(accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

Accountantnoun

(accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.

Accountantadjective

(obsolete) Accountable.

Accountantnoun

One who renders account; one accountable.

Accountantnoun

A reckoner.

Accountantnoun

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

Accountantadjective

Accountable.

Accountantnoun

someone who maintains and audits business accounts

Accountant

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy. Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certified Accountant or Certified Public Accountant, or Registered Public Accountant.

Counternoun

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

Counternoun

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.

Counternoun

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

Counternoun

One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.

Counternoun

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

Counternoun

(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.

Counternoun

(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Counternoun

In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.

Counternoun

In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.

Counternoun

(wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

Counternoun

(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

Counternoun

(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

Counternoun

(Internet) A hit counter.

Counternoun

(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.

Counternoun

The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

Counternoun

(obsolete) An encounter.

Counternoun

(nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

Counternoun

(music) lang=en Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

Counternoun

The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

Counternoun

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

Counternoun

(typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

Counteradverb

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

Counteradverb

In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.

Counteradverb

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

Counteradverb

At or against the front or face.

Counterverb

To contradict, oppose.

Counterverb

(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

Counterverb

To take action in response to; to respond.

Counteradjective

Contrary or opposing

Counternoun

One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.

Counternoun

A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.

Counternoun

Money; coin; - used in contempt.

Counternoun

A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

Counternoun

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

Counternoun

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

Counternoun

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, - below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

Counternoun

Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.

Counternoun

The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

Counternoun

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

Counternoun

An encounter.

Counteradverb

Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; - used chiefly with run or go.

Counteradverb

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.

Counteradverb

At or against the front or face.

Counteradjective

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.

Counterverb

To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

Counternoun

table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted

Counternoun

game equipment used in various card or board games

Counternoun

a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens

Counternoun

a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

Counternoun

a person who counts things