BOOKKEEPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bookkeeping mean? 

• BOOKKEEPING (noun)
  The noun BOOKKEEPING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of recording business transactions

  Familiarity information: BOOKKEEPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOKKEEPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of recording business transactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bookkeeping; clerking

Hypernyms ("bookkeeping" is a kind of...):

accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)

Domain member category:

posting ((bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bookkeeping"):

single-entry bookkeeping; single entry (a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account)

double-entry bookkeeping; double entry (bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another)