ledger
IPA: ɫˈɛdʒɝ
noun
- A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
- A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
- (cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
- (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
- A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
- (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
- A surname.
- (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”). [(fishing) Fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.]
verb
- (transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
- (transitive, fishing) To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
- (intransitive, fishing) To engage in bottom fishing.
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Examples of "ledger" in Sentences
- He entered an item in a ledger.
- Accounts receivable departments use the sales ledger.
- The ledger for that is not the sourcing, but the truth.
- The night audit itself is an audit of the guest ledger.
- The general ledger is where posting to the accounts occurs.
- Accounts receivable is a ledger in its own self contained way.
- Still, the dynamics are the same on both sides of the ledger sheet.
- His grandfather was a ledger artist, medicine man, and bundle keeper.
- Pointedly, the first items on the ledger are cuts to the legislative branch.
- Scotland Yard begins investigating the corrupt officers named in the ledger.
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