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counting-house

counting-house is the alternative form of countinghouse.

Meaning of countinghouse

Noun

countinghouse (plural countinghouses)

  1. (dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.
    • […]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 43

Forms of counting-house

pluralcounting-houses

Questions about counting-house

What is counting-house the alternative form of?
Counting-house is the alternative form of countinghouse.

Words near counting-house in the dictionary

  1. counting to ten
  2. counting to three
  3. counting towards
  4. counting up
  5. counting upon
  6. counting-house
  7. counting-houses
  8. counting-out game
  9. counting-out games
  10. counting-room
  11. counting-rooms

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