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Definition of "bookkeeping" []

  • The practice or profession of recording the accounts and transactions of a business. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bookkeeping" in a sentence
  • "You can easily work with numbers — bookkeeping is one of the growing areas for this E-Type."
  • "It's not officially called a tax and some creative bookkeeping is done because it violates the terms of most government contracts."
  • "She had bookkeeping experience and took courses in bookkeeping so that she could keep the books at her father's farm."