countinghouse

Etymology

From counting + house.

countinghouse means an office used by a business to house its accounts department. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

An office used by a business to house its accounts department.“[…]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.”