Definition of Countinghouse

1. Noun. Office used by the accountants of a business.


Definition of Countinghouse

1. n. The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

Definition of Countinghouse

1. Noun. (dated) an office used by a business to house its accounts department ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Countinghouse

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Countinghouse

countified
countifies
countify
countifying
counting
counting-out game
counting angels on pinheads
counting coup
counting measure
counting number
counting numbers
counting rod
counting rods
countinghouse (current term)
countinghouses
countings
countless
countlessly
countlessness
countline
countlines
countor
countors
countre
countrey
countreys
countrie
countries

Literary usage of Countinghouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1826)
"At Ponte they had a countinghouse and storehouses, and a clerk used the countinghouse and kept the key, but did not sleep there. Mr. Fryer also carried on ..."

2. The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy by Henry Algernon Percy Northumberland, Thomas Percy (1905)
"... my Lordes House to be dailly at the countinghouse at the houris following Furst ... the said countinghouse for thies causes unto the houre at viij* o'th ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1852)
"It was objected, for the prisoner, that the building broken and entered by him was not properly described as a countinghouse. Verdict: guilty. ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"Unfolding to the view of the young novitiate of the countinghouse the history of his profession, from the days when the genius of commerce first hovered ..."

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