n. an office used by a business to house its accounts department
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A building or office appropriated to the bookkeeping, correspondence, business transactions, etc., of a mercantile or manufacturing establishment.
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n. office used by the accountants of a business
Word Usage
"Morris stayed busy enough in the daytime, shuttling between committee offices, the countinghouse, and the waterfront, where he harangued teams of seamen and stevedores—“I have scolded the officers like a gutter-whore,” he said of one laggard crew."