Word Meanings - SUMMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant.
ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant.
ACCOUNTABILITY
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
ACCOUNTABLE
1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
ACCOUNT BOOK
A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
ACCOUNTABLENESS
The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
ACCOUNTABLY
In an accountable manner.
ACCOUNT
1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings
ACCOUNTANT
1. One who renders account; one accountable. 2. A reckoner. 3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain
UNACCOUNTABILITY
The quality or state of being unaccountable.
UNACCOUNTABLE
1. Not accountable or responsible; free from control. South. 2. Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- Un`ac*count"a*ble*ness}, n. -- Un`ac*count"a*bly, adv.