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n. (bean counter English)
Usage examples of "bean counters".
Sure, it's money we don't have to payout, but the legal beagles and the bean counters get headaches about it.
Nina wasn't looking for scientific precision, she wanted a dramatic package that would have the tightfisted bean counters who controlled expeditionary money dreaming of frontpage headlines in USA Today and feature stories in Time and on Unsolved Mysteries.
I asked Joe McSweeney, one of NUMA s bean counters from accounting, to quietly see how you were coming along.
Now if China weren't right in the middle of getting systematically drawn and quartered by the Empire of Nippon, it would probably send official bean counters around to keep tabs on how much silver was actually present in these banks' vaults, and it would all be quiet and orderly.
Promotions weren't supposed to be given out like that, but the bean counters tended to stick together.
During this period Dedalus let his vetting staff go along with some bean counters and secretaries.