bookkeeper

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I'm expecting to see him walking through that door at any minute now, and passing back into the president's room Dick moved away, for the bookkeeper was approaching, with a look of concern on his face Say, Winslow, do you know, the porter was telling me just now that he believes he saw that bank examiner in town last night.

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  1. One who keeps accounts; one whose occupation is to make a formal balanced record of pecuniary transactions in account-books.

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  • I rented this to a man who had formerly been my bookkeeper, and who thought he could make money out of manufacturing. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Then she shuddered Dara was not a girl who looked like a bookkeeper--which she was--in the New York branch office of a Tulsa oil company. —  079 - Poison Island
  • Kring began working at Tallberg's as a bookkeeper, and by 1987, purchased the dealership. —  Custom Search
  • As Mr. Whippleton was the bookkeeper, and had the general charge of the finances of the firm, I concluded that the interior room was appropriated to the use of the dignified senior partner and his father, the special partner, when the latter chose to honor the establishment with his presence While I was taking a deliberate survey of the premises where I was to pass at least several weeks, two salesmen, with their memoranda in their hands, bustled into the counting-room, each attended by a customer, to whom he had sold a bill of lumber. —  Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
  • Jamie McMurtagh was seated on the stool in the outer den that was called the bookkeeper's, biting his pen, with even a sourer face than usual Good-morning, Jamie," said he cheerily Good-morning, Mr. —  Pirate Gold
 

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