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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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The task of determining which expenses fall on what side of the ledger would belong to the state attorney general.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

They salvaged a point, or three, on other days, but they were on the wrong side of the ledger on so many occasions.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The gains are landing on the other side of the ledger, at the companies that sell the machines.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

But there is another side of Nvidia’s supply-chain ledger that is also growing concerningly large.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The exactness of the number startled me, as he hadn’t checked the ledger in the storeroom.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Myriad ledgers record artworks and exhibitions alongside the income that sustained Saar and her then-young daughters — Alison, Lezley and Tracye — after her 1970 divorce from Richard Saar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Baker meticulously traces these changes as they materialized in art, literature, and the ledgers and letters of Italian merchants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

BVNK’s infrastructure bridges fiat currency with stablecoins, which are dollar-pegged tokens traded on blockchain ledgers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

He’d searched old journals and bundled correspondences, spies’ reports, maps and treaties, trade ledgers and the minutes of royal secretaries, and anything else he could dig up.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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