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bean counter  
n.   Slang
A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters: "Companies tended to recognize two cultures—that of the technologist and that of the bean counter" (Financial Times).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Bean Count
100s of Bean Count Top Brands at Low Prices
www.Gifts.com
China kidney beans
light speckled kidney beans High quality & low price
www.China-Bean.com
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bean-counter

  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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