Crossword clues for countinghouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countinghouse \Count"ing*house`\ (kount"?ng-hous`), Countingroom \Count"ing*room`\ (kount"?ng-r??m`), n. [See Count, v.] The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) an office used by a business to house its accounts department
WordNet
n. office used by the accountants of a business
Usage examples of "countinghouse".
In their individual and aggregate air of corruption, malevolence and misanthropy, they made the other inhabitants of the Pinchgut look as genteel and demure as countinghouse clerks.
Madame Bouclet let all her house giving on the Place in furnished flats or floors, and lived up the yard behind in company with Monsieur Bouclet her husband (great at billiards), an inherited brewing business, several fowls, two carts, a nephew, a little dog in a big kennel, a grape-vine, a countinghouse, four horses, a married sister (with a share in the brewing business), the husband and two children of the married sister, a parrot, a drum (performed on by the little boy of the married sister), two billeted soldiers, a quantity of pigeons, a fife (played by the nephew in a ravishing manner), several domestics and supernumeraries, a perpetual flavour of coffee and soup, a terrific range of artificial rocks and wooden precipices at least four feet high, a small fountain, and half-a-dozen large sunflowers.
The promenade was almost deserted, most of the inhabitants at siesta or yawning in their countinghouses, or dallying in the Pleasure Houses outside the fence.
High Street was not crowded at this time of the day, midafternoon, most men in their countinghouses, or at siesta, or at the Club.
Avery," said Lender, "it is usual to keep one's gold in an account at one of the countinghouses in the city, and to draw upon the funds with letters of credit.
They clattered through well-kept streets on wide cobblestones, passing shops, inns, countinghouses, temples, vendors’ booths and homes.
Scarfsellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossingsweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.
Scarf‑sellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossing‑sweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.
Without much gov ernment control, banks could be anything from stuffy old countinghouses to fast-and-loose investment cartels, play ing the stocks or commodity markets with the investors' savings.