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bookkeeper

[book-keep-er] / ˈbʊkˌkip ər /
NOUN
accountant
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She hopes the credential will position her for a job as an accounting specialist or bookkeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Gustav works as a bookkeeper for Julia’s father and is never entirely happy with his station.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

Tony Gene Broxton, a former fire department bookkeeper from the Florida Panhandle, was indicted in 2013 on federal charges of theft of public money and making false statements.

From Salon Nov. 13, 2025

It would later emerge that the bookkeeper had been lured to the basement of the building in Thistle Street by her colleague David Gilroy.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2025

Debbie, who works as a bookkeeper at a private elementary school, has a mobile, expressive face framed by blond chin-length hair.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 19, 2025

Witnesses in the case have seesawed between bookkeepers and bankers with often dry testimony to Daniels and others with salacious and unflattering stories about Trump and the tabloid world machinations meant to keep them secret.

From Seattle Times May 9, 2024

Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.

From Washington Times Aug. 6, 2022

Krush was born in Odessa, Ukraine, on Dec. 24, 1983, the daughter of bookkeepers who dreamed of life in the United States.

From New York Times May 27, 2020

They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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