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balancing the books



NOUN
bookkeeping
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Since winning power in a landslide last summer, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his finance minister Rachel Reeves have made balancing the books a priority.

From Barron's Nov. 19, 2025

Since winning power in a landslide last summer, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his finance minister Rachel Reeves have made balancing the books a priority.

From Barron's Nov. 19, 2025

This is not about taxation, and it's not about balancing the books.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2025

Chelsea will need to keep raising funds, either through player sales, increased commercial deals or prize money, to keep balancing the books over the length of their new signings' long contracts.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2023

I was occupied in balancing the books of Her Majesty the Queen.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various




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