beancounting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or policy of relying on quantitative measurable details, especially those concerned with expenses and profits, as opposed to seeking a broader understanding of something.
Example Sentences
- "Birt was 'obsessed with systems and procedures and power diagrams and channels of accountability' and 'turned the BBC into a beancounting Babel'."
- "A proud bureaucrat, Hermes serves as Planet Express's accountant, although, as we will discuss, his role goes well beyond the traditional beancounting activities we associate with accounting."
- "Ad statistics, the boring beancounting task critical to keep the budgets flowing, would have to exist separately and work for advertisers and their accounting departments."
- "At a practical level, a project of organizing prisoners would challenge the predominant beancounting organizing approach that considers a campaign viable only if potential dues income exceeds organizing and servicing costs."