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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department..
[…]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.
Use countinghouse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Countinghouse means (dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department..
Common synonyms include counting room, compting-house.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.
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