countinghouse

noun

countinghouse

noun

Etymology From counting + house.

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:

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