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What is "bean counter"

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bean counter

alt. (context idiomatic business mildly derogatory English) A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters. n. (context idiomatic business mildly derogatory English) A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters.

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bean counter

n. an accountant or bureaucrat who who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures

Usage examples of "bean counter".

They'd essentially been invented in Britain by EMI, but some bean counter in the British government—.

OUT OF NOWHERE WE GOT A BEAN COUNTER FROM OPERATIONS DOWN HERE IN AUSTIN.