counting house

English

Noun

counting house (plural counting houses)

Alternative form of countinghouse.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 106:
  It had become what Peter Ackroyd calls, in London: The Biography, 'a mere counting house'. The biggest counting house in the world, mind you.

References

“counting house”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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