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accounting

noun as in keeping financial accounts

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There are more than 4.7m leasehold dwellings in England accounting for 19% of the country's total housing stock.

From BBC

Mexican citizens represent the largest group of immigrants in the United States illegally, accounting for about 37% of the estimated 11 million in the country without documentation, according to the Pew Research Center.

Crypto corporations emerged as a major player in the 2024 election, pouring over $119 million into candidates' coffers — accounting for 44% of all corporate political spending, according to data compiled by nonprofit watchdog Public Citizen.

From Salon

Last year, Hindenburg Research, an activist short seller, accused the conglomerate of orchestrating “a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme.”

Less than two years ago, a small investment firm in New York City accused the company of stock manipulation and accounting fraud in what it called “the largest con in corporate history.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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