counting house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of counting house
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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The counting house trained the next generation of merchants, creating a distinct white-collar class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
“It’s like looking for gold coins, except you know where the king’s counting house used to be.”
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
Send him down to be sent in a counting house.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2016
He would never have left the counting house if one of his rivals had delivered the message, and sounded as if he meant it.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
The front gate and low south buildings—the counting house, offices, and storerooms, as Mrs. Bedlow explained— formed part of the enclosure.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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