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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who records the transactions of a business

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

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  • “Some people use the terms bookkeeper and accountant interchangeably, but that is not technically correct.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “Once, Cicero says, Generosa called his bookkeeper at five a.m. to rant about bubbles in the pool.”

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  • “-- The work of a bookkeeper is the same almost everywhere.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “Maybe Her bookkeeper was a drunken guy who didn't know a ledger from a scrap book.”

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