counter-bookn.¹

Forms: Also contre-book.

Etymology: counter- prefix 2g.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcounter-book.

A book for checking receipts, expenses, etc.; a check-book, a duplicate account-book. Cf. counter-roll n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book

journal1540

bankers' book1585

shop book?1594

waste-book1613

cash-book1622

counter-book1622

pay-book1622

copybook1660

audit-booka1680

bankbook1682

transfer-book1694

malt-book1710

pay list1757

petty cash book1827

passbook1833

stock book1835

guard book1839

tommy book1841

bought-book1849

in-clearing book1872

out-clearing book1882

out-book1884

trial-book1890

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 279 There is the Comptroller to keepe the Contrebookes for the Prince and State.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 323/1 He is to keep Counter-Books with the Treasurer.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 8/1 He was arrested last week on the charge of falsifying a counter-book.

1942 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 27 Counter Books, the sort of books used by shop assistants at the stores counters to record and act as receipt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

counter-book n.

ΚΠ

1630 J. Taylor Epigram 30 in Wks. 10 Though Base and Trebles, fortune did me grant,..Yet to make vp the Musicke, I must looke The Tenor in the cursed Counter booke.

?1631 Wat Tyler in Evans O.B. (1784) I. li. 282 Into the counters then they get, Where men in prison lay for debt; They broke the doors and let them out, And threw the counter-books about.

单词	counter-book
释义	counter-bookn.¹ Forms: Also contre-book. Etymology: counter- prefix 2g.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcounter-book. A book for checking receipts, expenses, etc.; a check-book, a duplicate account-book. Cf. counter-roll n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book journal1540 bankers' book1585 shop book?1594 waste-book1613 cash-book1622 counter-book1622 pay-book1622 copybook1660 audit-booka1680 bankbook1682 transfer-book1694 malt-book1710 pay list1757 petty cash book1827 passbook1833 stock book1835 guard book1839 tommy book1841 bought-book1849 in-clearing book1872 out-clearing book1882 out-book1884 trial-book1890 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 279 There is the Comptroller to keepe the Contrebookes for the Prince and State. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 323/1 He is to keep Counter-Books with the Treasurer. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 8/1 He was arrested last week on the charge of falsifying a counter-book. 1942 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 27 Counter Books, the sort of books used by shop assistants at the stores counters to record and act as receipt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmas counter-book counter-book n. ΚΠ 1630 J. Taylor Epigram 30 in Wks. 10 Though Base and Trebles, fortune did me grant,..Yet to make vp the Musicke, I must looke The Tenor in the cursed Counter booke. ?1631 Wat Tyler in Evans O.B. (1784) I. li. 282 Into the counters then they get, Where men in prison lay for debt; They broke the doors and let them out, And threw the counter-books about. extracted from countern.³ < n.¹1622 as lemmas
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counter-bookn.¹