bean counter

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bean-counter definition


  1. n.
    a statistician; an accountant. : When the bean-counters get finished with the numbers, you won't recognize them.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bean counter

noun
an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Bean counter is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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