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ledger

noun as in account book

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On the positive side of the ledger, Labour MPs have gone off to their constituencies in a better mood this week.

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Accountants were no longer ledger‑keepers; they handled tax strategy, audit planning, client advisory and compliance.

A public ledger of his Venmo account shows him paying friends back for dinners and a ticket to a Boston Celtics game.

Eventually captured by Hungarian patrolmen and executed by a firing squad, Senesh might have been one more name on the endless ledger of Holocaust victims.

For much of the 20th century, financial modeling meant working with a rudimentary, laborious set of tools: eight-column ledger paper, mechanical adding machines or hand-held calculators.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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