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bookkeeper

[book-keep-er] / ˈbʊkˌkip ər /
NOUN
accountant
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Rowley struggled to find work as a bookkeeper because so many locations triggered her allergies.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

His parents, a police officer and a bookkeeper, encouraged his curiosity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

His mother worked part time as a bookkeeper while his father was a tax attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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

Olka now had a job, a paying job, working as a bookkeeper.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

The moral bookkeepers would assure you: The math works out, your conscience is clean, don’t give it a second thought.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

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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