bookkeeper

as in recorder
a person whose job is to keep the financial records for a business questioned the bookkeeper about an entry in the accounts

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Recent Examples of bookkeeper The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker. Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025 For example, a bookkeeper might try to leverage a chatbot to arrive at an earnings forecast but end up needing to refine the prompt multiple times to get the right output. Eilon Reshef, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 His mother juggled low-paying jobs—waitress, bookkeeper—and his father, a heavy drinker, was mostly absent. Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 Boise resident Jennifer Johnson has two children and works two jobs — running a business for children with disabilities and as a part-time bookkeeper. Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookkeeper
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Noun
  • Military pilots may not have heard control tower The preliminary report also includes more details about an analysis of the flight data and voice recorder recovered from the helicopter.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • During an investigation, officials found the voice recorder below eight feet of dirt and debris.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fort Worth Star-Telegram Lillie Davidson is a general assignment reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a TCU student studying journalism (Go Frogs!).
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Janice Neumann is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And the defense secretary forcefully denied sharing classified airstrike plans in a group chat − and attacked the journalist who received them.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Kennedy's appointment as secretary of Health and Human Services has been met with simultaneous praise and skepticism based on his many beliefs.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Some argue that enough states have now approved the amendment, but the U.S. archivist declined to certify it because Congress explicitly set a deadline for ratification that states did not meet.
    Phoebe Petrovic, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Trump fired the archivist of the United States and expunged the boards of visitors of every service academy.
    Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The group submitted nearly 8,000 signatures to the registrar of voters office and the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission for review and validation.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • And mandatory mail voting in the 2020 general election helped hasten the shift away from in-person voting— a shift that Cynthia Paes, the county registrar of voters, notes was already well underway.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
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  • In its second phase, the website will host career pathways for 30 job titles, including wholesale sales representatives, security guards, shipping and inventory clerks and even human resources specialists.
    Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The judge in the case was another Floridian, a former justice of the peace, clerk of the court, and lawyer whose appointment was given the stamp of approval by Tallahassee newspapers.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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