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# bookkeeping

«bookkeeping» in Mova's school dictionary: **The job of keeping records of money that a business or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bookkeeping, uncountable); bookkeeper (a person)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The job of keeping records of money that a business or person spends and earns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#m1)

2) Keeping careful written records of anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons: bookkeeping means writing down income and costs to see the profit. In business and everyday life: a shop's bookkeeping. Phrase: do the bookkeeping, careful bookkeeping.

### examples

- Mum does the bookkeeping for her bakery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x1)
- Good bookkeeping shows how much money came in and went out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x2)
- The class practised bookkeeping for the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x3)
- Bookkeeping helps a business pay its taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x4)
- He learned bookkeeping at college. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x5)
- Careful bookkeeping showed they had made a profit of 50 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/#x6)

### note

Rare spelling: three double letters in a row: b-oo-kk-ee-ping. Uncountable. Related to accounting, but bookkeeping is the recording; accounting also explains the numbers. In maths problems, bookkeeping means adding up money in and taking away money out.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bookkeeping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bookkeeping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.