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countinghouses

countinghouses is the plural 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

Questions about countinghouses

What is countinghouses the plural of?
Countinghouses is the plural of countinghouse.

Words near countinghouses in the dictionary

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

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