bookkeepers

plural of bookkeeper
as in reporters
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 bookkeepers And Mary, who is left with a meager income to raise their children, teaches herself and then her three daughters how to be bookkeepers, which earns them notice throughout the city. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025 Allocate 10% to 15% of monthly revenue for delegation, focusing on virtual assistants, bookkeepers and content creators first. Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • For years, Wilson has been asked the same questions, either by reporters or friends back in Ontario.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Associated Press reporters Tim Reynolds in Miami, David Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, and Alan Suderman in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to her work at Iron Mountain, Kalas also heads the Academy Digital Preservation Forum, a platform where archivists, filmmakers, and technologists come together to swap ideas, share best practices, and tackle the challenges of keeping both digital and analog cinema safe for the future.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s Cabinet secretaries at the time resisted wholesale cuts, and few of the plans reached fruition.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Even the secretaries who may not be leading contenders in 2028 have seen Trump personally praise them.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.
    Time, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Traditional registrars also face disintermediation threats and may resist integration efforts that could reduce their control over lucrative renewal fees.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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  • When Burnett was a senior at McGavock High School, her boyfriend's father — Metro Council Member Mansfield Douglas III, a close friend of Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler — told her the newsroom was looking for copy clerks.
    Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • These are post offices, clerks of court, libraries, and local government offices.
    Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Bookkeepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeepers. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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