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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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The claimants had a leaked "ledger" of Associated Newspaper payments, invoices from some private investigators and extracts from reporters notepads with cryptic handwritten details of payments to sources.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Nasdaq earlier this month launched a new design for tokenized equities —shares or funds digitized to trade on a blockchain ledger.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Turning to the arcane economic terminology of international accounting, the balance of payments is a complete ledger of all economic transactions between the U.S. and the rest of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Like Aleys, Alouette forms alliances with other women, Sylvine and Marguerite, the latter of whom carefully documents the guards’ abuses in a ledger.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Mr. Washington comes back with a ledger and asks us to make our mark.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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