book-keeping
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- book-keeper noun
Example Sentences
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Humans are a striking example of this evolutionary book-keeping in action.
From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022
Bankman-Fried often told employees tasked with monitoring the company's financials that the book-keeping system was "the ultimate source of truth" about the company's accounts, two of the people said.
From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2022
“I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic book-keeping and they’re bankrupt,” he once recalled.
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2020
Mr Rehman told the BBC he refused to do so due to a lack of documentation, describing the organisation's book-keeping as "a cowboy job".
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2019
Their book-keeping consists of notches on the door-jamb, and their armour in the battle of life is a cast-iron distrustfulness.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
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