a book in which things are regularly recorded, especially business activities and money received or paid
Meaning of ledger in English
(Definition of ledger from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
ledger | American Dictionary
ledger | Business English
Examples of ledger
ledger
She wanted to balance the ledger, to demonstrate the "true dimensions" of the "totality of the moral collapse" (111).
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Most petitions were blank forms with ledgers for signatures, printed and distributed by farm journal editors.
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The pages of the ledger book were divided into seven columns and each recaptive was assigned one line.
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Harding's work includes comprehensive references to military reports, packing lists, shipwrecks, inventories, expenditure ledgers and accounts receivable.
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But he will end up with a better moral ledger if he does.
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People registered next to each other in the ledgers lived next to each other in the town.
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Such texts are sorely needed, if only to tell more about life on the other side of the colonial ledger.
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These summaries were prepared from actual ledgers listing day-by-day transactions.
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If merchants' assiduous ledger-keeping reflects a need to establish a literary type of credit, their performance as trustworthy commercial actors suggests affinities with the theatre.
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On the harm side of the ledger, disclosure is not always a benign activity.
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Once the cane was weighed, quantities were recorded in the mill's ledger.
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Since independence, there have been rural taxes and rural tax agencies whose offices usually have ledgers containing data covering the past 10 years.
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It thus quite clearly will improve his eventual moral ledger.
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Africans released from captured vessels were asked to supply information about themselves that was entered in large ledger books that became part of the official court record.
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Pagno is the only workman named in the ledger to be accorded that distinction.
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Translations of ledger
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grand livre…
defterikebir, ana hesap defteri…
grootboek…
účetní kniha…
hovedbog…
buku keuangan…
สมุดบัญชี…
sổ cái…
rejestr, księga, księga główna…
huvudbok, liggare…
lejar…
das Hauptbuch…
hovedbok, regnskapsprotokoll…
бухгалтерська книга…
