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bean-counter, n. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈbiːnkaʊntə(r)|
Also bean counter, beancounter.
[f. bean n. + counter n.2]
An accountant, esp. one who compiles statistical records or accounts; also applied contempt. to financial planners or statisticians. Hence, a person excessively concerned with accounts or figures.
1975Interfaces Feb. 74 (title) The measure of M.S./O.R. applications; or, Let's hear it for the bean counters. 1982N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 86/2 Tension between engineers and marketing specialists..and financial experts, derided as ‘bean counters,’ are [sic] endemic in the automobile business. 1986Independent 29 Nov. 17/1 The highly respected beancounters at Price Waterhouse have failed to recognise that times are changing in the City. 1991Observer 7 July 20/8, I think they are all parsimonious, cheese-paring, gut-scrimping bean-counters. 1992Chicago Tribune 22 Dec. i. 1/5 Bill Clinton..angrily derided as ‘bean counters’ leaders of national women's groups who complained that he has nominated too few women to his administration. |