countinghouse

See also: counting-house and counting house

English

Etymology

From counting +‎ house.

Noun

countinghouse (plural countinghouses)

1. (dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.

   Synonym: counting room

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 43:

     […] they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.