Ledger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A book in which the monetary transactions of a business are posted in the form of debits and credits.
  • n. A book to which the record of accounts is transferred as final entry from original postings.
  • n. A slab of stone laid flat over a grave.
  • n. A horizontal timber in a scaffold, attached to the uprights and supporting the putlogs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records.
  • n. A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
  • n. A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to the building.
  • n. A large flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n.
  • n. A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bar, beam, stone, or other thing that lies flat or horizontal in a fixed position.
  • n. The principal book of accounts among merchants and others who have to keep an accurate record of money and other transactions, so arranged as to exhibit on one side all the sums or quantities at the debit of the accounts, and on the other all those at the credit. Formerly also ledger-book.
  • n. A resident; a resident agent; especially, a resident ambassador. For various other spellings, see etymology.
  • n. A commission-agent: a name formerly given to a Londoner who bought coals of the country colliers at so much a sack, and made his chief profit by using smaller sacks, making pretense he was a country collier. This was termed legering.
  • Lying in a certain place; laid; laid up; stationary; fixed.
  • Resident, as an ambassador.
  • See leger.
  • In angling, to fish with ledger-bait.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an accounting journal as a physical object
  • n. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
  • Verb Form
    ledgered    ledgers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    journal   
    Variant
    leger    ligger   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    edger    hedger    leger    pledger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    notebook    tome    diary    manuscript    parchment    invoice    clipboard    typewriter    printout    memorandum