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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

Securitize will become NYSE’s first digital transfer agent, which allows it to create shares for stocks and exchange-traded funds as digital tokens on a blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Environmental advocates counter ignoring the other side of the ledger, including lives saved from reduced pollution and fuel savings from more efficient vehicles.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 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

The letter was in his big sprawling hand on a long ruled sheet torn out of the store’s ledger book.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns