Countinghouse

Word COUNTINGHOUSE
Character 13
Hyphenation count ing house
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Countinghouse"

What do we mean by countinghouse?

A building, room, or office in which a business firm carries on operations such as accounting and correspondence. noun

A building or office appropriated to the bookkeeping, correspondence, business transactions, etc., of a mercantile or manufacturing establishment. noun

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. noun

An office used by a business to house its accounts department noun

Office used by the accountants of a business noun

An office used by a business to house its accounts department.

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The word "countinghouse" in example sentences

Had the conflict with England receded, Morris would likely have maintained that course, attending to the affairs of the countinghouse while his partner navigated the byways of Philadelphia politics. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

In the afternoons he might have slipped out for a few hours at the countinghouse; in the evenings, he sat with the Secret Committee, usually at one of the town taverns, often late into the night. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Affairs at the countinghouse wound down to the point that Morris sent his half-brother, Thomas, now a partner in the firm, back to Europe. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

His day entailed drudgery at his writing desk in the countinghouse, attending arrivals and supervising the lading of outgoing vessels, and meeting with vendors and other merchants at the City Tavern, at the India Queen, or at any of a dozen other dens where merchants did their business. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

The unwitting instigator was John Brown, a former clerk in the Willing & Morris countinghouse, who was sent by Thomas Willing to deliver a secret message that originated with the British high command. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Before long he was brought into the countinghouse as a clerk, churning out the voluminous, painstaking correspondence that was the lifeblood of the shipping trade. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Morris stayed busy enough in the daytime, shuttling between committee offices, the countinghouse, and the waterfront, where he harangued teams of seamen and stevedores—“I have scolded the officers like a gutter-whore,” he said of one laggard crew. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Morris perused the documents in the chilly gloom of the countinghouse: among them was a printed copy of the Prohibitory Act, a new law passed by Parliament just before Christmas in retaliation for the warlike posture of the colonies. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Morris learned of this bit of slander one morning when “four or five poor women with Sacks under their arms” came knocking at the door of his countinghouse. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

But Morris and Greene were separated by circumstance and experience, one entrenched in his Philadelphia countinghouse, the other camped under the southern stars. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

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