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Economics | | English term or phrase: bean counters | | A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters: "Companies tended to recognize two culturesthat of the technologist and that of the bean counter" Financial Times. |
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| | محاسبي البنك | Explanation:
محاسبي البنك أو موظفي البنك
موجودة كما هي في قاموس إلياس هاراب التجاري تحت التعبرات التجارية الأمريكية النموذجية
مجرد اقترح نقلاً من مرجع تجاري
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counter
■ noun informal an accountant or bureaucrat who places excessive emphasis on controlling expenditure and budgets.
© Oxford University Press, 2004
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bean counter
Function: noun
Date: 1975
: a person involved in corporate or government financial decisions and especially one reluctant to spend money
© 2005 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
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bean counter
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Noun
1. an accountant or bureaucrat who who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
(hypernym) accountant, comptroller, controller
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