Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who keeps accounts; one whose occupation is to make a formal balanced record of pecuniary transactions in account-books.
Wiktionary
- n. A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who records the transactions of a business
Etymologies
- book + keeper (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Like the fact that the word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three sets of double letters...what is that called?”
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“Certainly -- we joke about the "border upgrade," where someone who was a bookkeeper is now an accountant, and the head of accounting at a small company is now Chief Financial Officer of a much bigger company, and the AA degree becomes a BA or MBA.”
“Some people use the terms bookkeeper and accountant interchangeably, but that is not technically correct.”
“Stevens 'wife said she called the bookkeeper in her husband's Senate office to see if a bill had come in, but then said, "I forgot about it" and never followed up.”
“Asking for good advice does not mean calling the bookkeeper for your bowling league.”
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“I ended up in a CPA office and soon learned enough to be called a bookkeeper -- years of wrangling an Olivetti adding machine remain with me now in the form of an arthritic right wrist long before I met a mouse.”
“Once, Cicero says, Generosa called his bookkeeper at five a.m. to rant about bubbles in the pool.”
“-- The work of a bookkeeper is the same almost everywhere.”
“The bookkeeper was a young man, very ready to agree with Ebenezer for the sake of future favour, but with the wistfulness of all industrial machines constructed by men from human potentialities.”
“Maybe Her bookkeeper was a drunken guy who didn't know a ledger from a scrap book.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bookkeeper’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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book phrases and words
having a look at book
book agent, book-answerer, book-astronomer, book-auction, book-auctioneer, book-bearer, book-birth, book-board, book-borrower, book-bosomed, book-bound, book-box and 264 more...
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Keepers
I'm fond of many words, but these are definitely keepers.
beekeeper, zookeeper, goalkeeper, netkeeper, innkeeper, housekeeper, storekeeper, gamekeeper, wicketkeeper, lighthouse keeper, gatekeeper, bookkeeper and 64 more...
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Double Letter words
Here is a list of Double Letter Words! Everyone is welcome to add some more words if needed!
bubbles, gallop, wheel, follow, grasshopper, bunny, rabbit, summer, groovy, puppy, fitness, greetings and 65 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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SomeOldDoor's list
Lovely words.
clover, cedar, bromide, glyph, belfry, glance, vehemently, well, flourish, plaintive, clarion, element and 169 more...
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indiekitten's Words
comely, resistentialism, truncated, lugubrious, bleary, tine, ramification, ruminate, athleticism, abstemious, clavicle, bookkeeper and 6 more...
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rwkasten's Words
antibody, ossify, oeuvre, emotive, oblong, ululate, amoeba, aeon, outre, perfidy, venal, verity and 55 more...
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nedpwolf's Words
conflate, hiccough, redivider, bookkeeper, axiomatic, ishkabibble, old-timey, funny bone, ratatouille, arch-enemy, jabberwocky, homunculus
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Notably Unique
Words that are in the record books, or otherwise attract comment.
pneumonoultramicr..., set, misconjugatedly, uncopyrightables, tesseradecades, hypolimnion., teetertotter, aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, aegilops, antiskepticism, bababadalgharaght... and 72 more...
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Double Double
Words with two (or more) sets of double letters. No suffixes!
accommodate, attendee, innkeeper, address, appall, boondoggle, appellate, billhook, crosscurrent, tattoo, balloon, kookaburra and 14 more...
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nobody's Words
blubber, poodle, quack, smite, pummel, fuzzy, onomatopoeia, ipsedixitism, pwn, cwm, nth, fluffy and 85 more...
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ruzuzu See raccoonnookkeeper. Jul 19, 2010