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
Born May 29, 1947, in Coalville, Utah, Geary was the son of Russell Dean Geary, a contractor who also owned a construction business, and Dana Geary, a homemaker who assisted with the family business as a bookkeeper.
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Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Yes, the $10,000 bill was paid two weeks earlier, the bookkeeper informed her.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
The site is particularly strong in the accounting and finance sector, with jobs available for everyone from collection managers to controllers, bookkeepers and CPAs.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
This month, a grandmother who’d once worked as a bookkeeper for her family’s dental practice became the fifth defendant sent to prison for their role in the sprawling conspiracy.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
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Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Yes, the $10,000 bill was paid two weeks earlier, the bookkeeper informed her.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
The site is particularly strong in the accounting and finance sector, with jobs available for everyone from collection managers to controllers, bookkeepers and CPAs.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
This month, a grandmother who’d once worked as a bookkeeper for her family’s dental practice became the fifth defendant sent to prison for their role in the sprawling conspiracy.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
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To overcome this, the researchers worked with engineers at the Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology to build a tiny, low-power brain recorder called a biologger.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Jan. 2026
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The plane's black boxes — the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder — were recovered by NTSB investigators.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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The agency said a reporter would have to file a records request to obtain more information.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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The sheriff declined to answer several questions, including one from a reporter who asked if there was a ransom demanded.—
Adam Sabes , Michael Ruiz , Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Among the documents is an email exchange from 2009 in which Mandelson, while serving as business secretary in Brown’s government, appeared to leak to Epstein detailed policy measures that the cabinet was considering in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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Since becoming health secretary, however, Kennedy has largely steered clear of the issue, despite a push by raw milk advocates to change federal policy on raw milk.—
Suzy Khimm,
NBC news,
3 Feb. 2026
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The late Feldman archivist Chris Villars assembled a list of some two hundred and fifty pieces written in Feldman’s memory.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Horses were first shown in 1907 at what was then called the Western National Stock Show, Keith Fessenden, the stock show’s historian and archivist, said in an email.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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Mayne, the registrar at the Raupp Museum in Buffalo Grove, and Debbie Fandrei, the museum’s director and the other historian, began a search of dozens of contemporaneous sources, including the News-Sun.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Lakeside's previous police chief, who also served as mayor, Robert Gordanaire, was fired after he and his daughter, the town clerk, were indicted by a grand jury for selling vehicles belonging to the town and pocketing the profit.—
Brian Maass,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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According to prosecutors, Trammell flashed a knife at a store clerk in the Morena neighborhood and then held a homeless man hostage at knifepoint.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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