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Definition of Bean counter
1. Noun. An accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures.
Definition of Bean counter
1. Noun. (idiomatic mildly derogatory) A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters: (Financial Times).. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Counter
Literary usage of Bean counter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alliance Adrift by Yoichi Funabashi (1999)
"In other words, the report was nothing more than a bean-counter's tract. "We have
always maintained that the US bases are like a cancer on our attempts to ..."
2. The Guardians by Lawrence Murray, Murray Lawrence (2002)
""That is what I should put into the report, but he is famous and, to all except
the Board, I'ma bean counter. Worse, he does not dispute these data so I am ..."
3. Bridging Regional Growth and Community Empowerment edited by Michael A. Stegman, William J. Benfanti, John P. Ross (1996)
"Former employees describe him as an archetypical "bean counter" who established
formal decisionmaking procedures and systems at a time when flexibility and ..."
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