bookkeeper
Americannoun
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bookkeepers
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Amy’s certified public accountant wrote that the bookkeeper was under “direction to not reply or provide information” to one of Sandy’s attorneys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Rowley struggled to find work as a bookkeeper because so many locations triggered her allergies.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
Tony Gene Broxton, a former fire department bookkeeper from the Florida Panhandle, was indicted in 2013 on federal charges of theft of public money and making false statements.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
Witnesses in the case have seesawed between bookkeepers and bankers with often dry testimony to Daniels and others with salacious and unflattering stories about Trump and the tabloid world machinations meant to keep them secret.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
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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