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Definition of ledger : 1. A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.
2. A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.
3. A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

Synonyms:

rule book, al-Qur'an, account book, script, volume, book of account, playscript, record book, leger

cashbook, journal, receipts, balance, inventory, total, register, balance sheet, asset, profit and loss, slate, books, docket, account, budget, roll, reckoning, schedule, invoice, general ledger

itemization, storybook, list, collection, logbook, table, repertory, tablet, waybill, sum, pad, file, scroll, detail, census, dictionary, summary, recording, registry, roster, score, thesaurus, cash book, menu, lexicon, documentation, store, bill, annals, annual, novel, blank-book, workbook, tally, treasury, recount, digest, manifest, check, tabulate, count

chronology, archive, autobiography, album, bank-book, enumeration, catalog, memorandum, calendar, chronicle, memo, description, index, epic, narrative, biography, statement, log, scrapbook, newsletter, diary, record, history, recital, book, notebook, daybook, anecdote, yearbook, newspaper

Usage examples:

• How he too knew what was going on in the old ledger- room, Louie could not guess; but she knew that he did know. - "The Story of Louie", Oliver Onions.
• It is a big ledger some one has given him, in which he notes the important events of his life. - "The New Book Of Martyrs", Georges Duhamel.
• Ward indifferently turned to his private ledger, consulted it, then drew a check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and handed it over, with the casual remark: " Well, yes, something happened; not much yet- a little too soon." - "Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009.