How to Use bean counter in a Sentence

bean counter

noun
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  • He blames corporate bean counters for causing thousands of workers to lose their jobs.
  • Either way, this kind of play effectively takes you out of the driver's seat—or even the pit—to become a bean counter.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In an age of drab bean counters, Miramax had moxie and mystique.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Nevertheless, Thiele found ways around the bean counters.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • That trial and error makes Carl a bean counter in addition to scientist.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
  • Virtually, the only people who cared were the bean counters, the stat keepers and the bookmakers.
    — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
  • Sorrento is an autocratic bean counter, a would-be master of the universe who doesn’t even like video games.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • And bean counters beware — not every car sold at these auctions means big bucks for the local economy.
    — Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 16 July 2019
  • What, pray tell, could be the reason for such a preemptive strike against these nonpartisan bean counters?
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • This is of course intentional: The editor’s job is not only to walk the tightrope between art and commerce but also to shelter the writer from the bean counters.
    — Colin Dickey, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • To anyone other than an airline bean counter, airfares make absolutely no sense.
    — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2018
  • And medicine, like any other profession, has its charlatans and jerks, and is certainly being perverted by the bean counters.
    — Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • Connecticut’s bean counters are forecasting a $2 billion budget deficit next year.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • That’s especially true in years when April tax revenues roll in below expectations, causing bean counters to scramble to realign priorities.
    — Joshua Miller and Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018

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