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名詞

counting-house (複数形 counting-houses)

1. Alternative form of countinghouse
   • 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

     The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.

名詞

counting house (複数形 counting houses)

1. 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.

語源

counting +‎ house