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compting-houses

compting-houses is the plural of compting-house.

Meaning of compting-house

Noun

compting-house (plural compting-houses)

  1. A countinghouse.
    • A trifling thing occurred now which occasioned Mary some uneasiness. Her maid, a well-looking girl, had captivated the clerk of a neighbouring compting-house. As the match was an advantageous one, Mary could not raise any objection to it, though at this juncture it was very disagreeable to her to...1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction

Questions about compting-houses

What is compting-houses the plural of?
Compting-houses is the plural of compting-house.

Words near compting-houses in the dictionary

  1. comptible
  2. compting
  3. compting house
  4. compting houses
  5. compting-house
  6. compting-houses
  7. comptly
  8. comptograph
  9. comptographs
  10. comptometer
  11. comptometers

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