cruncher

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Examples

• If a pension fund expects to pay someone $10,000 in 10 years and anticipates it will earn 7% a year, compounded, today’s cost of that benefit — what numbers crunchers call its “present value” — shows up on its books as a liability of $5,083.

• At his worst, Ryan can come across as a heartless number cruncher—or the most physically fit accountant in Janesville, Wisconsin.

• It plays to all her strength as a superwonk policy cruncher.

• Vell, then, clubs is trumps, an' we have got a big von vith a knot on the hend for Gran'mother Cruncher—see?

• But at the end of the first week Grandmother Cruncher's rheumatism was too much for her and she was compelled to retire.

• Aside from his duty to Grandmother Cruncher, he was not going to have his business run by outsiders—not if he knew himself!

• Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home.

• "That there Roger Cly, master," said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage.