LEDGER
\lˈɛd͡ʒə], \lˈɛdʒə], \l_ˈɛ_dʒ_ə]\
Definitions of LEDGER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
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an accounting journal as a physical object; "he bought a new daybook"
By Princeton University
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a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
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an accounting journal as a physical object; "he bought a new daybook"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The principal book of accounts among merchants, in which the entries in all the other books are laid up or entered.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A book of accounts in which a trader enters the names of all persons with whom he has dealings; there being two parallel columns iu each account, one for the entries to the debit of the person charged, the other for his credits. Into this book are posted the items from the day-book or journal.
By Henry Campbell Black
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lej'[.e]r, n. the principal book of accounts among merchants, in which the entries in all the other books are entered: (Shak.) a resident, esp. an ambassador: a bar, stone, &c., made to lie flat, a piece of timber used in making a scaffolding, a horizontal slab, as over a tomb.--adj. lying in a certain place, stationary. [Skeat explains ledger-book as one that lies always ready, from Dut. legger, one that lies down, leggen, to lie, a common corr. of liggen, to lie (like lay for lie in English).]
By Thomas Davidson
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Principal book of the set used for recording trade transactions, containing debtor-&-creditor accounts; horizontal timber in scaffolding, parallel to face of building; flat grave-stone; (also l.-bait) bait fixed in one place (so l.-hook,-line); l.-blade, stationary blade in cloth-shearing machine acting with revolving spiral blade; (adj.; Mus.) l. line, short line added above or below stave for outside notes (perh. attrib. use of n. in scaffolding sense above). [Dutch]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[A.S., cf. Ger., Goth.] (Com.) A book in which accounts are finally entered, summed, and recorded from the journal, wastebook, etc.
By Henry Percy Smith
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A book lying open for record or inspection;— specifically, the principal account book among merchants, into which entries from the journal, cashbook, &c., are transferred in brief form;— a large, fiat stone, such as is frequently laid over a tomb;— one of the pieces of timber used in forming a scaffolding.
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