accounting machine

American  

noun

1. a machine for performing bookkeeping functions, as arithmetic operations or vertical and horizontal tabulations.

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Etymology

Origin of accounting machine

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

It’s fully about an accounting machine that takes into ecological and nutritional consequences, all together to create holistic picture,” he said.

From The Guardian

There a whirring IBM Cardatype accounting machine figured what would have happened had an investor put an average $500 a year into a stock every year since 1929�about $15,500 in all.

From Time Magazine Archive

"His astuteness is with procedure, and he has an accounting machine in his head," says Producer Robert Evans.

From Time Magazine Archive

The father of three children, a $100-a-week business accounting machine operator and a sometime Baptist, Moseley owned a $16,000 home in Queens, had five pedigreed German shepherd dogs, drove a 1960 white Corvair, and gave every sign of respectability�in the daytime.

From Time Magazine Archive

He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine.

From Time Magazine Archive