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
The body of the former secretary and bookkeeper was found two days later inside the trunk of her car at the construction site, according to prosecutors.
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The Promise—And Limitations—Of Embedded Bookkeeping Traditionally, this meant hiring a bookkeeper and setting up a formal accounting system to track financial transactions, a usually costly endeavor for small businesses.
—Vlad Rusz, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Shirazi’s father, a bookkeeper and an accountant, struggled to get a full-time job.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
More examples: In education, colleges and universities have gravitated toward part-time instructors, while many nonprofits use part-time fundraisers, bookkeepers and program managers.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2025
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The Promise—And Limitations—Of Embedded Bookkeeping Traditionally, this meant hiring a bookkeeper and setting up a formal accounting system to track financial transactions, a usually costly endeavor for small businesses.
—Vlad Rusz, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Shirazi’s father, a bookkeeper and an accountant, struggled to get a full-time job.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
More examples: In education, colleges and universities have gravitated toward part-time instructors, while many nonprofits use part-time fundraisers, bookkeepers and program managers.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
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Production worked with Mercedes AMG, the Formula 1 team and their engineers to build real race cars that could carry the film’s camera equipment — recorders and transmitters.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
28 June 2025
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Maricopa County recorder Justin Heap sued his fellow Republicans on the county's board of supervisors on Friday, after a monthslong battle over which powers his position holds.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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There is no law that says Adams has to call on a specific reporter.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2025
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Earlier Friday, before the memo was distributed, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters that more than 25,000 Americans had reached out for information on leaving Israel, the West Bank and Iran.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 June 2025
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On Monday, after the Tribune’s story on Johnson’s lobbying team was published online, Williams filed paperwork with the Illinois secretary of state’s office to register the city of Chicago as one of his lobbying clients.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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The clause requires presidential appointment and Senate confirmation for officials in significant positions of authority – such as cabinet secretaries and other top agency officials.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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In January 2020, the three states that most recently ratified the ERA — Illinois, Nevada, and Virginia — sued the archivist in the District of Columbia in an attempt to get the court to force the National Archives to publish the amendment.—
Sarah Bedford,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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Those reels were later rediscovered in 2002 by Edwin and Arno Konings, Dutch twins and Sly and the Family Stone archivists, and carefully restored by co-producer Palao.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
5 June 2025
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The lawsuit said the Justice Department received a complaint from a family member of a non-citizen in Orange County who had allegedly received an unsolicited mail ballot from the county registrar, despite their citizenship status.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
25 June 2025
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The county filed a complaint in April with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center against Pope and the registrar, NameCheap Inc., of Phoenix.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2025
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After the vote, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, forced Senate clerks to read the entire 940-page bill rather than customarily waiving that chore.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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An overnight reading of the bill would leave the clerks and floor staff weary before senators are scheduled to hold 20 hours of debate on the legislation and then launch into a multihour vote-a-rama.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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