countinghouse
Example Sentences
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The VCs finger stacks of money like countinghouse kings while they grill the hopefuls, causing more squirm and humiliation than The Office.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though much of his own attention was concentrated on the countinghouse, Ochs also had a talent for filling his editorial offices with some of the legendary greats of journalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Javits plan would rely on the commercial companies to undertake most of the coverage, despite their traditionally unimaginative countinghouse mentality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its dingy, fourth-floor Manhattan offices resemble a countinghouse out of Charles Dickens.
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My courage failed me at the sight of a countinghouse or shop crowded with men, bartering and contending loudly with one another.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
