bookkeeper

as in recorder
a person whose job is to keep the financial records for a business questioned the bookkeeper about an entry in the accounts

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Recent Examples of bookkeeper Boise resident Jennifer Johnson has two children and works two jobs — running a business for children with disabilities and as a part-time bookkeeper. Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 19 Feb. 2025 Kay worked at Falls Medical Center until her retirement, and most recently as a bookkeeper at Thunderbird Lodge until earlier this spring. Tammie Calder, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 The future first lady helped her husband with the business by working as a bookkeeper for the farm. Julia Manchester, The Hill, 29 Dec. 2024 Five months in, the Covid-19 pandemic arrived and the business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker. Megan Sauer, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookkeeper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
Noun
  • Terri Thal, Dylan’s manager at the time, brought a bulky Ampex recorder in a leather case to the show and set it up on a table at stage left.
    Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Investigators later determined that the bomb was hidden in a cassette recorder and packed in a suitcase that was loaded on a plane from Malta to Frankfurt, Germany, with no accompanying passenger.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Sacramento Bee 916-321-1755 Marcus D. Smith is The Sacramento Bee’s Elk Grove reporter.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Each inmate put to death using nitrogen in Alabama has appeared to shake and gasp to varying degrees during their executions, according to media witnesses, including a reporter form The Associated Press.
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And the revisions worked, Miguel Cardona, Biden’s education secretary, told USA TODAY in January.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The administration loves anyone who wants to harvest timber, mine for critical minerals, graze cattle, or produce oil and gas on federals, the interior secretary said.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Marta González de la Rubia, an archivist at Loewe who gave me a tour of the facility, told me that in the company’s early decades the retention of samples had been haphazard, and that this was especially true with the company’s packaging.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • In the near future, digital archivist Sara Hussein is returning home to Los Angeles after a work trip when she’s pulled aside by agents from an organization called the Risk Assessment Administration.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Find Out the Unique Name She Chose Off a Grave According to the German Personal Status Act, however, registrars must register the name and the gender of the child in the birth register, the Library of Congress Blogs reported.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
  • California law requires that ballots be counted as long as they are postmarked by election day and arrive at the registrar’s office within a week of the election.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The deed to your property can be retrieved from your respective county clerk’s office.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
  • She was released from custody on $300,000 bond, according to the Waterbury Judicial District clerk’s office, and is next due in court on March 26.
    Michelle Krupa, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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