accountants
- 1Plural of accountant.
The company's accountants reviewed every invoice before approving payment.
Several accountants flagged the same discrepancy in the quarterly report.
Note
A regular plural, made with -s, and always a noun: the obsolete adjective accountant, meaning "accountable," never took a plural ending. The plural carries every noun sense of the singular. That includes the older "those who render account," public officers in charge of accounts, and today's professionals who audit records. In euphemistic use it can also mean sex workers who prefer not to be named as such, so context decides.
accountants is a form of accountant
accountant, noun: A professional who organizes, maintains, and audits another party's records, which are usually but not always financial. Full entry
- Forms
- accountantaccountants plural
- Spelling
- accountant → accountants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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