Word.ws English Dictionary

book keeping

book keeping is the alternative spelling of bookkeeping.

Meaning of bookkeeping

Noun

bookkeeping (usually uncountable, plural bookkeepings)

  1. (usually) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
  2. (usually) General tasks for maintaining a system.
    Synonyms:
    housekeeping

Questions about book keeping

What is book keeping the alternative spelling of?
Book keeping is the alternative spelling of bookkeeping.

Words near book keeping in the dictionary

  1. book hand
  2. book hands
  3. book in
  4. book into
  5. book it
  6. book keeping
  7. book knowledge
  8. book label
  9. book labels
  10. book law
  11. book learning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: book keeping (page history and authors); bookkeeping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “book keeping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/book_keeping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.