Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building, room, or office in which a business firm carries on operations such as accounting and correspondence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building or office appropriated to the bookkeeping, correspondence, business transactions, etc., of a mercantile or manufacturing establishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated an
office used by abusiness to house itsaccounts department
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun office used by the accountants of a business
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Examples
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Before long he was brought into the countinghouse as a clerk, churning out the voluminous, painstaking correspondence that was the lifeblood of the shipping trade.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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But Morris and Greene were separated by circumstance and experience, one entrenched in his Philadelphia countinghouse, the other camped under the southern stars.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Affairs at the countinghouse wound down to the point that Morris sent his half-brother, Thomas, now a partner in the firm, back to Europe.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Had the conflict with England receded, Morris would likely have maintained that course, attending to the affairs of the countinghouse while his partner navigated the byways of Philadelphia politics.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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His day entailed drudgery at his writing desk in the countinghouse, attending arrivals and supervising the lading of outgoing vessels, and meeting with vendors and other merchants at the City Tavern, at the India Queen, or at any of a dozen other dens where merchants did their business.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Morris learned of this bit of slander one morning when “four or five poor women with Sacks under their arms” came knocking at the door of his countinghouse.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The unwitting instigator was John Brown, a former clerk in the Willing & Morris countinghouse, who was sent by Thomas Willing to deliver a secret message that originated with the British high command.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Morris stayed busy enough in the daytime, shuttling between committee offices, the countinghouse, and the waterfront, where he harangued teams of seamen and stevedores—“I have scolded the officers like a gutter-whore,” he said of one laggard crew.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Morris perused the documents in the chilly gloom of the countinghouse: among them was a printed copy of the Prohibitory Act, a new law passed by Parliament just before Christmas in retaliation for the warlike posture of the colonies.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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