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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

But inevitably you are also a bookkeeper, a shipping clerk, a marketing specialist and a navigator of government regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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

She went back to work as a bookkeeper, keeping the same schedule she had when Keith died, working Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

More puzzling still, the district’s bookkeepers say closing schools won’t save the money needed, not even close.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 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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