Engineer vs Accountant - What's the difference?
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A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
A person who operates an engine (such as a locomotive).
To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
One who renders account; one accountable.
A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
(accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
(accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
As nouns the difference between engineer and accountant
is that engineer is a person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering while accountant is one who renders account; one accountable.As a verb engineer
is to design, construct or manage something as an engineer.As an adjective accountant is
accountable.engineer
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(wikipedia engineer)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "engineer": mechanical, electrical, civil, architectural, environmental, mechatronics, industrial, optical, nuclear, structural, chemical, military, electronic, professional, chartered, licensed, certified, qualified.Verb
(en verb)External links
* *accountant
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Alternative forms
(one who handles financial records)Etymology 1
* First attested in the mid 15th century. * * From (etyl), from (etyl) acuntant. * Compare (etyl) accomptant. * See also account .Noun
(wikipedia accountant) (en noun)Quotations
* {{quote-book, year=1900 , author=Francis William Pixley , title=Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London).citation, volume=1 , page=4 , passage=The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter'', which took its origin from the Latin word ''computare . The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.}}
