Associations to the word «Bookkeeping»

Wiktionary

BOOKKEEPING, verb. Present participle of bookkeep
BOOKKEEPING, noun. (accounting) the skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.

Dictionary definition

BOOKKEEPING, noun. The activity of recording business transactions.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats