chartered accountant

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   a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter

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Questions about chartered accountant

What does chartered accountant mean?

chartered accountant means "a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter".

Is chartered accountant a common word?

chartered accountant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.