counting house

American  

noun

1. a building or office used by the accounting and bookkeeping department of a business.

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counting house British  

noun

1. rare a room or building used by the accountants of a business

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Etymology

Origin of counting house

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

The counting house trained the next generation of merchants, creating a distinct white-collar class.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s like looking for gold coins, except you know where the king’s counting house used to be.”

From BBC

“No student tuition is going towards the endowment,” said Gary Sernovitz, an executive at a private equity firm and author of “The Counting House,” a novel focusing on the chief investment officer of a prestigious university.

From Los Angeles Times

The sporadic crackle of a feeble fire brings us into the cold room at Scrooge and Marley’s Counting House, a sound we wouldn’t have heard in the stage production.

From Seattle Times

To this day, I call fingerless gloves Cratchit gloves, in honor of poor Bob Cratchit, freezing there in the counting house.

From New York Times