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1. accountancy, n. View full entry 1699
...The art of formally recording, classifying, and interpreting financial transactions and associated events, and of calculating taxes due, esp. within the context of a business; the profession, practice, or duties of an...
2. accountantship, n. View full entry 1640
...The theory or practice of accounting. = accountancy1. Now rare....
3. accountless, adj. View full entry 1649
...Free from accountableness; irresponsible. Obs.rare....
4. accrued, adj. View full entry 1656
...Accumulated or increased by growth; (esp. of interest, leave) built up over time....
5. accruement, n. View full entry 1607
...Something that accrues or has accrued; an addition or accession by natural growth; an increment. Also (occas.): an accumulation....
6. accumulative, adj. View full entry 1641
...Formed by or arising from accumulation; increasing or designed to increase by successive additions; cumulative....
7. acquirer, n. View full entry 1667
...A person who (or occas. thing which) acquires something....
8. adaeration | aderation, n. View full entry 1623
...The action or an act of giving a monetary value to something....
9. adjust, v.2 View full entry 1611
...trans. To arrange, harmonize, or reconcile (different or contradictory things); to settle, to resolve (esp. a difficulty or problem)....
10. adjusted, adj. View full entry 1652
...Harmonized, balanced. Obs....
11. adjuster, n. View full entry 1673
...A person who adjusts something (in various senses of the verb)....
12. adjustment, n. View full entry 1644
...The action or process of adjusting something (in various senses). Also: an instance of this; an alteration, a modification....
13. adulterateness, n. View full entry 1655
...The quality or condition of being adulterate (adulterate1); debased or adulterated state....
14. ad valorem, adv., n., and adj. View full entry 1662
...Esp. of a duty or tax: in proportion to value....
15. † advenue, n. View full entry 1600
...Income, revenue....
16. affiliate, v. View full entry 1623
...To adopt (a child). Obs.rare....
17. affiliation, n. View full entry 1623
...The adoption of a child; spec. (in ancient Gaul) the adoption of a male heir by a person of high rank. Obs.rare....
18. agency, n. View full entry 1600
...The process of acting as an agent (agent2); the position, role, or function of an agent, deputy, or representative; an instance of this. Now somewhat rare....
19. agenting, n. View full entry 1646
...The business or process of acting as an agent (in various senses); the profession of an agent....
20. aggressive, adj. and n. View full entry 1695
...Of or relating to aggression; involving attack; offensive....
