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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 down
  2. counting frame
  3. counting frames
  4. counting glass
  5. counting glasses
  6. counting house
  7. counting houses
  8. counting in
  9. counting measure
  10. counting measures
  11. counting noses

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