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bookkeeper

American  
[book-keep-er] / ˈbʊkˌkip ər /

noun

  • bookkeepers
    plural
  1. a person who practices bookkeeping.


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It led her to send emails that March to Epstein’s bookkeeper, asking why the credit cards she didn’t recognize were showing up on her credit report.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

But inevitably you are also a bookkeeper, a shipping clerk, a marketing specialist and a navigator of government regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

His parents, a police officer and a bookkeeper, encouraged his curiosity.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion's staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

Debbie, who works as a bookkeeper at a private elementary school, has a mobile, expressive face framed by blond chin-length hair.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 19, 2025

Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.

From Washington Times Aug. 6, 2022

Rather, the guidelines ask scientific bookkeepers in each country to quantify levels of a particular activity.

From Seattle Times Nov. 8, 2021

As Selznick put it, Hollywood had been “grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry.”

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2020

They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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