as in recorder
a person whose job is to keep the financial records for a business
questioned the bookkeeper about an entry in the accounts
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Recent Examples of bookkeeper
As the former bookkeeper of Off Road Warehouse’s shop in San Diego, Carey Alice Hernandez was responsible for the company’s finances ahead of the March 2019 fire that destroyed the building, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
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Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025
The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
For example, a bookkeeper might try to leverage a chatbot to arrive at an earnings forecast but end up needing to refine the prompt multiple times to get the right output.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
His mother juggled low-paying jobs—waitress, bookkeeper—and his father, a heavy drinker, was mostly absent.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025
The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
For example, a bookkeeper might try to leverage a chatbot to arrive at an earnings forecast but end up needing to refine the prompt multiple times to get the right output.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
His mother juggled low-paying jobs—waitress, bookkeeper—and his father, a heavy drinker, was mostly absent.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
Noun
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After the service, the young boy who loved to play the recorder was buried in Hollywood.—
Charles Rabin,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
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Closures include libraries, municipal courts, clerk and recorder offices, and motor vehicle title and registration offices.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The distraught relative quickly left the scene, declining to talk with reporters.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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In a follow-up meeting with financial reporters, Bessent said de-escalation with China is a priority but the two countries’ leaders are not in talks, and a deal cannot be negotiated with underlings.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Linda McMahon, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said the federal government will resume involuntary collections for borrowers in default on May 5.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Standing next to Farrell for the somber announcement were Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, substitute chief of staff, and Archbishop Diego Ravelli, master of liturgical ceremonies.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That meant the restorers had to take imperfect left sides of other inferior prints and digitally stitch them onto the Paramount print, a process that took several years and the efforts of dozens of archivists at multiple institutions.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 Apr. 2025
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At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to help hold together a ledger.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But some Republican registrars took them as an insult, and at least one, Lisa Amatruda of Woodbury, walked out.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2025
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The registrar’s office also expects higher costs to train more vote center staff to help people who register and vote on the same day.—
Hanna Kang,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The photo album belonged to Karl Höcker, a former bank clerk who came to Auschwitz to be commandant Richard Baer’s right-hand man.—
Karen D'Souza,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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The checkout clerks at my local Stop & Shop have all but disappeared.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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