book-keeping
noun
the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
book-keeper
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a word derived from
book-keeping.
Example Sentences
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The retired book-keeper, who has also tried his hand at lecturing and driving a taxi, previously considered himself a failure until he discovered electronic dance music just before lockdown.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
From his grand Manhattan office on 26 Broadway, the fastidiously punctual former book-keeper, with an eye permanently on the ledger, launched a “cut-to-kill” strategy whenever competition threatened his stranglehold on the kerosene industry.
From Economist ● May 26, 2016
In 1886, the fledgling drinks company’s book-keeper Frank Mason Robinson penned the first version of the now legendary script, but it wasn’t registered as a trademark until January 1893.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2014
Part of the job will continue to be “tracking down the disgruntled former secretary or book-keeper who knows where the bodies are buried, and knowing how to coax information from them,” he says.
From Economist ● Jan. 3, 2013
You are a book-keeper, mynheer, and you know how to juggle figures.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
