Meaning of bean counter | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general.

derogatory, idiomatic, mildly

Equivalents

Examples

“As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.”

“And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid.”

“With bean counters hopefully no longer in charge of the railways, Great British Railways has an opportunity to justify the adjective in its name.”

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