Bookwork
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bookwork is a noun meaning Accounting work; book keeping.
Meaning
Accounting work; book keeping.
More Meanings
- The art and science of formatting books.
- Work done with the aid of textbooks.
- (chiefly University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.
Example Sentences
The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.
The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.
The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.
The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include books, daybook, shopbook, workbook, cashbook, bankbook.
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