1. a building or office where financial accounts and records are kept and business is conducted
Usage: historical

Examples

• The merchant spent his mornings in the countinghouse reviewing ledgers.
• Clerks worked diligently in the countinghouse, recording transactions.
• The old countinghouse still stands in the historic district downtown.
• Scrooge’s countinghouse was a cold, dreary place to work.
• The company’s countinghouse handled all financial matters for the trading business.
• Records from the 18th-century countinghouse reveal detailed trade information.