countinghouse en · NOUN
Etymology
From counting + house.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| counting house | alternative | lexicographic | |
| countinghouses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |