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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper \Book"keep`er\, n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bookkeeper

also book-keeper, 1550s, from book (n.) + keeper. A rare English word with three consecutive double letters. Related: Bookkeeping, which is from 1680s in the sense "the work of keeping account books;" book-keep (v.) is a back-formation from 1886.

Wiktionary
bookkeeper

n. A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.

WordNet
bookkeeper

n. someone who records the transactions of a business

Usage examples of "bookkeeper".

Mary, he told himself, knew decidedly more of whoring than of clerking, and as the mistress of a brothel as well as his bookkeeper she would be tied to him for ever.

He is in need of a bookkeeper, one who knows both English and the old tongue.

Friday morning, that is, the day after the accursed seance, all the available staff of the Variety -- the bookkeeper Vassily Stepanovich Lastochkin, two accountants, three typists, both box-office girls, the messengers, ushers, cleaning women -- in short, all those available, were not at their places doing their jobs, but were all sitting on the window-sills looking out on Sadovaya and watching what was going on by the wall of the Variety.

A messenger girl ran past the bookkeeper, her kerchief all pushed back on her head and her eyes popping.

The bookkeeper felt his legs trembling and sat on the edge of a chair, but did not forget to pick up his briefcase.

Knowing the form well, the bookkeeper instantly filled it out and began to untie the string on the bundle.

Kiev, when the bookkeeper was arrested and a host of other quite stupid and incomprehensible things took place --Margarita woke up at around noon in her bedroom with bay windows in the tower of the house.

The lady bookkeeper in question, the one who fancied Sammy, was actually a married woman of thirty-three, Misses Lily Chambers.

She enjoyed the job from the start, because there was a kind of up-and-coming atmosphere present, even if the senior bookkeeper was a bit of an old goat.

Lily closed the door and Sammy found him self alone with this female bookkeeper who apparently fancied him.

Oh, yes, that peculiar female bookkeeper, Misses Lily Chambers, a little while ago.

The number of these which requested the need for a bookkeeper, eight in all, filled her heart with joy.

Shipping Company, the first of the business concerns which had advertised for a bookkeeper clerk.

While there were vacant positions aplenty, none of those advertising for a clerk bookkeeper required a female bookkeeper who was a ticket of leave convict.

Mary was the bookkeeper and accountant at the brewery as he had come to absolutely trust her financial judgement in all matters.