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countinghouse
noun count·ing·house \ˈkau̇n-tiŋ-ˌhau̇s\
Definition of COUNTINGHOUSE
: a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
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First Known Use of COUNTINGHOUSE
15th century
Rhymes with COUNTINGHOUSE
barrelhouse, bawdy house, boardinghouse, body louse, cat and mouse, clearinghouse, coffeehouse, country house, customhouse, halfway house, house-to-house, jumping mouse, kilogauss, Lévi-Strauss, manor house, meetinghouse, Mickey Mouse, milligauss, motherhouse, on the house, open house, opera house, overblouse, packinghouse, pilothouse, pocket mouse, porterhouse, powerhouse, shotgun house, slaughterhouse, sporting house, station house, sucking louse, sugarhouse, summerhouse, tiring-house, tower house, treasure-house, Westinghouse
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