Helen Fenton

Accountant: Definition and part of speech

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Accountant

  1. a. Accountable.
  2. n. One who renders account; one accountable.
  3. n. A reckoner.
  4. n. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accountable: Definition and part of speech

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Accountable

  1. a. Capable of being accounted for; explicable.
  2. a. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accountability: Definition and part of speech

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Accountability

  1. n. The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Account: Definition and part of speech

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Account

  1. n. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
  2. n. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
  3. n. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one’s account at the bank.
  4. n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
  5. n. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
  6. n. A statement and explanation or vindication of one’s conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
  7. n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.