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
While the actor's stardom rose, Ada attended college in Louisville and Northern Kentucky and worked as a bookkeeper.
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Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
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Same-sex unions could not be recognized by the local assessor-recorder’s office.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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The city filed a notice against the LLC for breaching the contract, followed by an affidavit in support of forfeiture of the real estate in December, according to the Polk County recorder's website.—
Kate Kealey,
Des Moines Register,
23 Feb. 2026
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Branthwaite gave a stock answer when discussing his new role with reporters on Monday.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, is due to hold talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Thursday in Geneva, Zelenskyy told reporters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
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Sullivan said budget estimates show the district could save about $208,000 a day by furloughing district-level administrators, $370,000 by furloughing principals and assistant principals and $101,000 a day by furloughing district secretaries.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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If minutes are not overdone, secretaries should be able to participate in deliberations and promptly have draft minutes available for member review to comply with Civil Code Section 4950(a).—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Foto Estudio Luisita, a 2018 documentary directed by Hugo Manso and Sol Miraglia (the latter of whom serves as the archivist for the sisters’ work), first brought the Escarrias’ photography to the attention of a larger audience.—
Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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For more than a year, Ricker has worked with government engineers, archivists and National Parks personnel to develop a device that will insulate and preserve dozens of present-day documents from natural elements, like water, oxygen and temperature fluctuations, for the country’s 500th anniversary.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
26 Feb. 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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According to the union, the tentative agreement would still need to be ratified by a majority of about 220 clerks before being adopted as a contract.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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This includes a comic scene about proofreading the monotonous legal documents that clerks like Bartleby were paid pennies to copy, and a scene at the end where a jail cook rattles off all the former occupations of its now-nameless inmates.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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