Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
bookkeeping, clerking
(noun) the activity of recording business transactions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bookkeeping (usually uncountable, plural bookkeepings)
(accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
bookkeeping
present participle of bookkeep
Source: Wiktionary
Book"keep`ing, n.
Definition: The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account.
– Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order thaItalian method.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.