BOOKKEEPER in a Sentence

Learn BOOKKEEPER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for BOOKKEEPER, such as:

1. The Anabaptist James made him his bookkeeper.
2. I run the shop and my wife does the bookkeeping.
3. She deputed the bookkeeping to me while he was away.
4. Eric earned his bread and butter as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by working with a dance band on weekends.
5. With reluctance he told us that you spent your mornings at the store and would permit no one else to do the bookkeeping.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOOKKEEPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bookkeeper
 n.  a person who records the accounts or transactions of a business
Classic Sentence:
1  Freddy backed up Eliza in her obstinate refusal to believe that they could save money by engaging a bookkeeper with some knowledge of the business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
2  The Anabaptist James made him his bookkeeper.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  With reluctance he told us that you spent your mornings at the store and would permit no one else to do the bookkeeping.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
5  I shook hands with this miracle, and I learned he was the Company's chief accountant, and that all the bookkeeping was done at this station.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
6  On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings in shorthand schools and polytechnic classes, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the elementary schools, let me not dwell.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  "Italian bookkeeping," said the gentleman of the gray whiskers ironically.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
Example Sentence:
1  Eric earned his bread and butter as a bookkeeper, but added a little jam by working with a dance band on weekends.
2  She deputed the bookkeeping to me while he was away.
3  I run the shop and my wife does the bookkeeping.