(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.
Speed
Definition:
(n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
(n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
(n.) To go; to fare.
(n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
(n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
(n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
(n.) To be expedient.
(v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
(v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
(v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
(v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
(v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
(13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
(16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
(17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
(19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
(20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.