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bookkeeping

[boo k-kee-ping]

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noun

the work or skill of keeping account books or systematic records of money transactions (distinguished from accounting).

Origin of bookkeeping

First recorded in 1680–90; book + keeping

Related formsbook·keep·er, noun

Can be confusedaccounting bookkeeping finance(s)

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for bookkeeping

recording, auditing

Examples from the Web for bookkeeping

Historical Examples of bookkeeping

My bookkeeping must have been a trial to his orderly, pigeon-holed soul.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug
Joseph C. Lincoln
And yet, the only reason he was not now with her was solely a detail of bookkeeping.
The Wall Street Girl
Frederick Orin Bartlett
The pretense at bookkeeping, unreal bookkeeping, he abandoned.
Pirate Gold
Frederic Jesup Stimson
We have prepared, for home study, books on bookkeeping, penmanship and shorthand.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
Robert L. Taylor
It would also simplify the bookkeeping of the commercial house.
Godfrey Morgan
Jules Verne