countinghouse
Noun

countinghouse (plural countinghouses)

  1. (dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.
    • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 43:
      […] they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.



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