Definition of bean counter
bean counter 
noun
- a person involved in the finances of an organization - e.g. an accountant. Mildly derogatory, this term implies that the person is concerned only with financial figures and not the larger concerns of the organization.
Citation from "Good Advices", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 2 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: professions (list of).
Last edited on Jul 21 2011. Submitted by Luther on Dec 10 2002.
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Other terms relating to 'professions (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: a psychologist or psychiatrist. | |
| Definitions include: security, generally at a club, bar, or party. | |
| Definitions include: a firefighter. | |
| Definitions include: an "undercover" police officer. | |
| Definitions include: a scientist, engineer, or person employed in a technical field. | |
| Definitions include: an area such as a particular street where prostitutes solicit customers. | |
| Definitions include: "bartender". | |
| Definitions include: the police. | |
| Definitions include: to have drugs. | |
| Definitions include: The Police. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit | |
| Definitions include: a prototypical menial or dirty job. | |
| Definitions include: the police. | |
| Definitions include: "penetration tester". | |
| Definitions include: pronounced "eckee lopp." | |
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Other terms relating to 'bean': | |
| Definitions include: an Ecstasy (MDMA) pill or tablet. | |
| Definitions include: to eat food, to have a meal. | |
| Definitions include: to stare at breasts, usually in cold weather. | |
| Definitions include: see flick (one's) bean. | |
| Definitions include: time to eat | |
| Definitions include: phrase used to indicate that something is very good, excellent, "cool". | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to stimulate the clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: female masturbation. | |
| Definitions include: to tell the entire story truthfully. | |
| Definitions include: to reveal a secret. | |
| Definitions include: This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. | |
| Definitions include: female masturbation. | |
Other terms relating to 'count': | |
| Definitions include: to stare at breasts, usually in cold weather. | |
| Definitions include: to become extremely hopeful about a future occurrence. | |
| Definitions include: A personal trainer who does not know what they are doing or isn't very good. They are not real personal trainers but rather people who count repetitions of an exercise. The best example of a rep-counter is a trainer who places their clients on a series of machines, demonstrates the form for the machine and then proceeds to count reps. Since most people are capable of reading the printed directions on the machine so this activity is not really personal training but rather "rep-counting." | |
| Definitions include: in the groin. | |
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