accountant

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.

noun

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.
   Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this 50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur Phone bill about two G's flat No need to worry, my accountant handles that And 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

adj

1. (obsolete, with to) Accountable.