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Definition of Countinghouse
1. Noun. Office used by the accountants of a business.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Countinghouse
1. n. The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.
Definition of Countinghouse
1. Noun. (dated) an office used by a business to house its accounts department ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Countinghouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countinghouse
Literary usage of Countinghouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1826)
"At Ponte they had a countinghouse and storehouses, and a clerk used the countinghouse
and kept the key, but did not sleep there. Mr. Fryer also carried on ..."
2. The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy by Henry Algernon Percy Northumberland, Thomas Percy (1905)
"... my Lordes House to be dailly at the Countinghouse at the houris following Furst
... the said Countinghouse for thies causes unto the houre at viij* o'th ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1852)
"It was objected, for the prisoner, that the building broken and entered by him
was not properly described as a countinghouse. Verdict: guilty. ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"Unfolding to the view of the young novitiate of the countinghouse the history of
his profession, from the days when the genius of commerce first hovered ..."
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