cruncher

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.