Thesaurus: ledger
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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- 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. 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.
- n. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- n. an accounting journal as a physical object
- n:100 n. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded