countinghouse

countinghouse

See also: counting-house and counting house

English

Etymology

counting +‎ house

Noun

countinghouse (plural countinghouses)

1. (dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 43:

     […] they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.