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
As the former bookkeeper of Off Road Warehouse’s shop in San Diego, Carey Alice Hernandez was responsible for the company’s finances ahead of the March 2019 fire that destroyed the building, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
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Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025
The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
For example, a bookkeeper might try to leverage a chatbot to arrive at an earnings forecast but end up needing to refine the prompt multiple times to get the right output.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
His mother juggled low-paying jobs—waitress, bookkeeper—and his father, a heavy drinker, was mostly absent.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025
The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
For example, a bookkeeper might try to leverage a chatbot to arrive at an earnings forecast but end up needing to refine the prompt multiple times to get the right output.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
His mother juggled low-paying jobs—waitress, bookkeeper—and his father, a heavy drinker, was mostly absent.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
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The quiet reflection under the glare of recorders and TV cameras soon to air on the YES Network postgame occurred nearly an hour after the highly touted pitch failed him again.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Once the tape recorder stops rolling, Trump offers a tour through his private spaces beyond the Oval.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
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In: Pentagon Politics Pete Hegseth Jennifer Jacobs Jennifer Jacobs is a senior White House reporter at CBS News.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The distraught relative quickly left the scene, declining to talk with reporters.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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His secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security reportedly will not, for now, recommend doing so, but the potential impact: mobilizing troops to round up immigrants in American neighborhoods.—
Kica Matos,
Time,
2 May 2025
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Waltz will temporarily be replaced by Marco Rubio, who already has three other jobs: secretary of state, national archivist and acting administrator for the United States Agency for International Development.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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That meant the restorers had to take imperfect left sides of other inferior prints and digitally stitch them onto the Paramount print, a process that took several years and the efforts of dozens of archivists at multiple institutions.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 Apr. 2025
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At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to help hold together a ledger.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Registrar Lock And Auto-Renewal Immediately enable registrar lock and auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration or unauthorized domain transfers.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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But some Republican registrars took them as an insult, and at least one, Lisa Amatruda of Woodbury, walked out.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2025
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Maggie Perkins left her teaching job to work as a clerk at Costco, and she’s never looked back 1 Comments Maggie Perkins left her teaching job to work at Costco in 2022, Perkins shares her journey and life on TikTok, where she's grown a following.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Colorado is fighting Trump administration pressure to help a county election clerk convicted of allowing Trump supporters to access election equipment after his 2020 defeat.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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