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单词 counting-house
释义

counting-housen.

Etymology: < count v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcounting-house.
a. A building or apartment appropriated to the keeping of accounts; a private chamber, closet, or cabinet appropriated to business and correspondence; an office. Now only as in c.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > counting house
counterc1386
counting-housec1440
cash-house1633
accounting house1705
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 99 Cowntinge hows, computoria.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ii. sig. Cc.iijv/2 These kinde of fellowes..keepe themselues cloase in secreate counting houses, their baggs are their pillowes whereon they sleepe.
1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 157 In the lyttell cownting howsse within the great chamber.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles (1789) 97 Closets and compting-houses often told our ancestors their duty.
1893 N.E.D. at Counting-house Nursery Rime The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money.
b. The office of account of the royal household. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts > office or department of
counting-housea1483
accountantship1668
tellership1764
accounts department1829
cost centre1921
account1960
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 83 He indenteth with the Thesaurer of the household in the countinghouse for all the basyns, ewears, cuppes, etc.
1539 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 228 The Lord Great Master, the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Kings Household..shall be dayly in the Compting-house between the hours of 8 and 9 in the morning.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Counting-House of the Kings Houshold..Commonly called the Green Cloth..where sit the Lord Steward..the Comptroller..for daily taking the Accompts of all Expenses of the Houshold.
c. spec. A building, room, or office in a commercial establishment, in which the book-keeping, correspondence, etc., are carried on; also attributive. (Now largely superseded in everyday use by office.)
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society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun]
counterc1386
officec1405
counting-house?1608
kutcheri1610
bureau1702
counting-room1712
dufter1791
cabin1979
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xxxix. 149 To heare..a merchant talking in his counting-house.
1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 16 The counting-houses of the fish-brokers.
1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 18 The merchant who sits in his compting-house.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 134 There were those who still remembered him an apprentice, sweeping one of the counting houses of the City.
attributive.1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism x. 75 A year or two of countinghouse work disgusted James Perry with invoices and ledgers.
d. An office of finance, a comptoir n. Obsolete.
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1735 G. Berkeley Querist §234 To appoint four counting-houses, one in each province, for converting notes into specie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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