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accountant

Definitions of accountant
  1. noun
    someone who maintains and audits business accounts
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    types:
    hoorder, toehoorder
    a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
    boekhouder
    someone who records the transactions of a business
    calculator
    a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
    type of:
    zakenmens
    a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  2. noun
    a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit
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    type of:
    cursist, leerling, scholier, schoolkind, student, studerende
    a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
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