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nouncountinghouse (plural countinghouses)
plural countinghouses · alternative counting house
- datedAn 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 43Synonyms: counting room, compting-house
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nounAn office used by a business to house its accounts department.
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