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1842 Foreign Q. Rev. July 477 Wanting is the excellent Horace Walpole..in that good memory which Swift has pronounced indispensable to a certain class of statement-makers.

1894 Second Ann. Meeting, Pacific Coast Gas Assoc. in Amer. Gas Light Jrnl. 18 June 893/2 We have districted the city, and have good statement-takers, men whom we have taken from the shop and made office men of.

1917 Mod. Methods May 189/2 When the time limit arrives..the statement writer goes down the row of flags sticking up on that particular date, making out statement for each account affected.

1950 Accounting Rev. 25 87/2 Combining..average advance and attendant charge, gives the statement reader valuable information concerning the relative cost of obtaining assets from the various equities.

1981 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Ca.) 17 July a2/1 When reporting income of a business, the statement filer must list every person from whom the business received payments of $10,000 or greater.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 34/2 After months of preliminary research by statement-takers and investigators, a community gathers in a local hall to hear ‘the truth’ about past horrors.

2016 M. Munro in H. Croall et al. Crime, Justice & Society Scotl. x. 153 The most common reasons for Scottish statement makers to return the statement was not to influence the sentence.., but a desire to express their feelings about what had happened.