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countinghouse

countinghouse noun: an office used by a business to house its accounts department.

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

Synonyms of countinghouse

Forms of countinghouse

pluralcountinghouses
alternative formcounting house

Origin of countinghouse

From counting + house.

Questions about countinghouse

What does countinghouse mean?
Countinghouse means an office used by a business to house its accounts department.
What part of speech is countinghouse?
Countinghouse is a noun.
What is the plural of countinghouse?
The plural of countinghouse is countinghouses.

Words near countinghouse in the dictionary

  1. counting-houses
  2. counting-out game
  3. counting-out games
  4. counting-room
  5. counting-rooms
  6. countinghouse
  7. countinghouses
  8. countings
  9. Countisbury
  10. countless
  11. countlessly

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