bookkeeper

noun

Definition of bookkeepernext
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 After Krug died in 1856, Joseph Schlitz, the company's bookkeeper, bought the company and renamed it. — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 19 May 2026 Many afternoons after school, Annie worked alongside the agents, bookkeepers, and assistants, doing her homework or helping with the filing. — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 15 May 2026 McCauley ran with a slate of board candidates that included Dianna Brooks, a former eight-year administrator and executive bookkeeper in the township office. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026 And the spreadsheet—often cited as a job-killer for bookkeepers—actually led to an explosion in the number of financial analysts. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for bookkeeper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bookkeeper
  1. recorder
  2. reporter
  3. secretary
  4. archivist
  5. registrar
  6. clerk
Noun
  • The board also will fund a new $15 million information technology system and related positions for the recorder.
    — Josh Kelety, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • Developers who use multiple AI agents simultaneously can switch between them using the illuminated keys, and a dedicated voice recorder shortcut supports spoken prompts.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Definition of recorder
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  • And then there are other analysts and reporters, such as Mark Clattenburg, Geoff Shreeves, Alex Aljoe and Katie Shanahan.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • There seems little chance that Times reporters will be in jail cells anytime soon; judges are unlikely to order that extreme step this early in the legal process.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of reporter
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  • Slavit designed and named the artwork after Della Street, played by Barbara Hale, the secretary to lawyer Perry Mason on the 1950s and ’60s legal drama of the same name.
    — Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • The secretary of state shared the concerns and requested documentation about the residencies of those people, but even with additional materials, the residencies of 293 people remained unconfirmed, the letter said.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2026
Definition of secretary
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  • Before archivists can preserve a record, the record must survive long enough to make it into their hands.
    — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • Inside the company's archives, corporate archivist Virginia Angles preserves more than 120 years of Kellogg history, including some of the marketing ideas that helped make the brand a household name.
    — Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Definition of archivist
Noun
  • As an internet domain registrar and web hosting company, GoDaddy bears the risk that CSAM may be hosted on its platform and has the technical ability to disable the website and remove the content.
    — Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • But registrars in Orange and Los Angeles counties have already certified their election results, so voters have a fairly clear picture of who will be on their ballots in the fall.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
Definition of registrar
Noun
  • But hundreds of family court records obtained from the Augusta District Court clerk’s office detail years of allegations of physical and verbal abuse raised by his second ex-wife on behalf of herself and his daughters.
    — Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 17 July 2026
  • Rice was 13 months old and never got to know his father, a body builder and supermarket stock clerk, according to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
Definition of clerk

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