counting-houses
Merchant accounting rooms
Counting-houses were offices or buildings where financial business was conducted, particularly bookkeeping, accounting, and the handling of money.
The term appears frequently in 19th-century literature, notably in Dickens, where clerks like Bob Cratchit toiled over ledgers.
Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
The word has largely fallen out of use, replaced by more modern terms like office or accounting firm.
Formal accounting records
- clerksAdministrative office employees
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- transactionsExchanges of value
desks · inkwells · quills · tallying · receipts · invoices · cash boxes · strongboxes
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- top hatsTall formal headwear
- frock coatsFormal knee-length men's coats
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
Bob Cratchit · London · fog · chimneys · cobblestones · workhouses · poverty · Marley
Professional work spaces
- chambersEnclosed functional rooms
- warehousesLarge goods storage buildings
- wharvesWaterfront loading platforms
- docksideAdjacent to mooring area
City of London · storefronts · backrooms · partitions · wooden floors · shutters · vaults · iron doors
ledgers
Formal accounting records
- clerksAdministrative office employees
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
transactions · desks · inkwells · quills · tallying · receipts · invoices · cash boxes · strongboxes · safes
Scrooge
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- top hatsTall formal headwear
- frock coatsFormal knee-length men's coats
Bob Cratchit · gaslight · London · fog · chimneys · cobblestones · workhouses · poverty · Marley · quill pens
offices
Professional work spaces
- chambersEnclosed functional rooms
- warehousesLarge goods storage buildings
- wharvesWaterfront loading platforms
dockside · City of London · storefronts · backrooms · partitions · wooden floors · shutters · vaults · iron doors · brick buildings
counting-houseschurches
Christian houses of worship
chapels · monasteries · temples · playhouses · parlors
counting-housesalmshouses
Charitable housing for poor
poorhouses · charitable institutions · soup kitchens · hospices · orphanages
counting-housesateliers
Artists' creative spaces
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