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countinghouse

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count·ing·house also count·ing house  (kountng-hous)
n.
A building, room, or office in which a business firm carries on operations such as accounting and correspondence.
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Noun1.countinghouse - office used by the accountants of a business
business office, office - place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed; "he rented an office in the new building"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom


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Do you know your little Vanya's with me, a clerk in the countinghouse at Pokrovskoe.
His satellites- the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook, two old women, a little pageboy, the coachman, and various domestic serfs- were seeing him off.
 
 
 
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