bookkeeper

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 A lot of startups have no bookkeeper, CFO, or finance team. Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025 Valorie Moser, a former bookkeeper, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday. Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 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 Haggard was fiddling on the new strings when Marian, Dad’s mother, who’d taken over as the store’s bookkeeper, walked by. Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookkeeper
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Noun
  • Hidden inside the roulette table was a secret recorder, which captured everything.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The music will be performed on historical instruments by Pama Lynn Broeckel (violin), Susan Willis-Powers (harpsichord), Ulla Sinz (recorder), Cathe Sobke (Baroque guitar/recorder), and Sandra Stram (viola da gamba).
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But just a few hours earlier, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins had insisted to reporters that the contingency fund could not be used even if the administration wanted to.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Nine hours after addressing reporters in the wake of a humbling 28-6 loss to Baltimore, Mike McDaniel was at it again on Friday, speaking to Dolphins reporters via Zoom in the normal day-after-game media availability that’s required for all NFL head coaches.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Francis Ford Coppola brought it there and the joint chiefs of staff, secretary of defense, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency were all there.
    Dan Reilly, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • To this day, Zeev doesn’t have anyone on his payroll, not even a secretary.
    Michal Lev-Ram, CNBC Contributor, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Co-curator and Ruocco archivist Todd Pitman provided us with truly remarkable color film footage — now digitized — of the Design Center site and building under construction in 1949.
    Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Taylor, then the deputy registrar of the University of Leicester, was played in the film by English actor Lee Ingleby.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Bae’s ruling addressed several of the core issues raised by the city — among them Simonds’ secondary review of the signatures and ability to overrule the registrar of voters’ determination — and concluded in favor of the Association for the City of La Jolla.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Davis asks her clerk to print out a map.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Law clerk Jason Treul, 32, of Anaheim, California, was sent home.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.

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