(n.) One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francisco Moreno, an unemployed bookkeeper, scoffed at Spanish leaders' calls on the public to be patient.
(2) Bookkeeping suggests that some K(+) influx be called active.
(3) Most hospitals use time clocks for nonsalaried employees for bookkeeping purposes; dissatisfaction with this method of tracking hours worked does not appear to be widespread.
(4) The virtues of graft were drummed in by his parents, Nettie, a bookkeeper and Martin, an engraver – so successfully that at 17 Woody was earning more than them both combined , rattling out gags for comedians and columnists.
(5) Shortly afterwards, the heiress's former bookkeeper claimed Bettencourt had made illegal cash donations to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign, an allegation vehemently denied by the French leader and his entourage.
(6) "This will mean the end of the quite onerous bookkeeping and segregation of supplies, equipment and people that were necessary under the Bush executive order," he said.
(7) "This will mean the end of the quite onerous bookkeeping and segregation of supplies, equipment and people that were necessary under the Bush executive order," said BD Colen, spokesman for the institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(8) The person(s) responsible for bookkeeping and accounting should choose carefully, ensuring that any system is easy to use, has been thoroughly tested, and provides at least as much control over office records as has been outlined in this article.
(9) Vanessa Chantal Paradis – granted such a birth name you'd feel, surely, that you had failed if you ended up, at 37, bookkeeping for a toilet supplies company rather than, say, having a string of bestselling albums, a swish-sexy batch of films behind you, and a partner regarded even by men as the sexiest actor in the world… Ms Paradis, who is still not Mrs Depp, is a cool, measured draught of sanguine thoughtfulness, which is not quite what I had expected.
(10) The secret to good bookkeeping is to keep it up to date on a daily basis.
(11) In the past, a PC's "jobs" have included education, bookkeeping, business workflows (where Office especially dominates), media creation and consumption, internet-based communication (text, audio or visual) and social media.
(12) The same applies to underhand accounting practices: the shopper who rumbles Tesco’s shoddy pricing strategy can’t be expected to extend their scrutiny to the supermarket’s internal bookkeeping.
(13) Jacqueline Ruge, 44, a bookkeeper from Berlin, says she understands the need to help out Germany's neighbours, but this generosity should not be abused.
(14) Computers can calibrate and monitor instrument performance regularly, and can handle managerial and clerical duties such as bookkeeping.
(15) In the basement archives of a local arts and crafts museum where the books and bookkeeping registers were handled, a woman on the museum staff had had ten attacks of fever, chill, nausea and cough during one year.
(16) Whether you’re a bookkeeper, a supplier, a driver, a cook, whatever you are, if what you’re doing helps the machinery of death of a regime to keep rolling, you should be called to account.
(17) In the past, erring executives have rarely got prison time for their roles in shady bookkeeping.
(18) The page was sent to Ballou on 31 January 1968, several weeks before King was assassinated, by Lillie Hunter, bookkeeper for the SCLC and secretary to Ralph Abernathy – a close associated of King.
(19) Beginning in the 1920s and culminating in the work of Kinsey in the 1940s and 1950s, a tradiition of social bookkeeping began focusing on the sexual behavior of relatively normal persons.
(20) She was at home until my younger sister went to primary school and then worked only school hours as a bookkeeper until we were in our teens: she was always there, taken for granted in the background.
Keeper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
(n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
(n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
(n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
(n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
(n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(2) It's straight at Stockdale, though the keeper needs two attempts to get the ball under control in these awkward conditions.
(3) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(4) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
(5) This was the keeper’s introduction to English football following his £17m move from Barcelona and perhaps, in hindsight, it was a mistake from Guardiola not to ease him in against West Ham a couple of weeks ago.
(6) Juan nearly pokes a backpass past an advancing Julio Cesar; the keeper does well to hack clear.
(7) Although Hart turned another Götze chance behind early in the second half, after Blaszczykowski and Lukasz Piszczek had neatly combined on the right, there was nothing he could do when Reus intercepted the blind pass Rodwell attempted to play to Nastasic and drove into the area before shooting across the City keeper.
(8) He's got the jump on Mathijsen, but not on the keeper, who surges off his line to clear.
(9) Meyler was in unfamiliar territory on the right side of defence and performed brilliantly in the second half but Germany’s next opportunity of note came on the opposite flank when Marc Wilson’s backpass to Forde was left short and the keeper nervously found the stand, despite his initial touch almost reaching Thomas Müller with a clear path to goal.
(10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
(11) Eventually, Ballance tried to reverse sweep Ajantha Mendis, but he could only edge to the keeper.
(12) You can’t have a go at him as the keeper has made a fantastic save for the second one.
(13) Gaddafi, as vigilant keeper of the flame, kept a weather eye open, heaping privileges on some and prestige on others in order to consolidate alliances and plaster over any cracks that threatened to appear.
(14) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
(15) Keepers clean the babies by using a cotton swab warmed to the same temperature as the mother's tongue.
(16) 90+2 min Howard Webb books the keeper Benaglio for timewasting.
(17) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
(18) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
(19) We felt Tim would be the most appropriate keeper to save penalties.
(20) Jelavic's penalty was saved by the Baggies keeper Ben Foster but Rosenior was on hand to head home the rebound and score his first senior goal since October 2009.