Ledger
['ledʒə] or ['lɛdʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; 'they got a subpoena to examine our books'.
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Definition
(n.) A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.
(n.) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
(n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.
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Definition
n. the principal book of accounts among merchants in which the entries in all the other books are entered: (Shak.) a resident esp. an ambassador: a bar stone &c. made to lie flat a piece of timber used in making a scaffolding a horizontal slab as over a tomb.—adj. lying in a certain place stationary.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of keeping a ledger, you will have perplexities and disappointing conditions to combat. To dream that you make wrong entries on your ledger, you will have small disputes and a slight loss will befall you. To put a ledger into a safe, you will be able to protect your rights under adverse circumstances. To get your ledger misplaced, your interests will go awry through neglect of duty. To dream that your ledger gets destroyed by fire, you will suffer through the carelessness of friends. To dream that you have a woman to keep your ledger, you will lose money trying to combine pleasure with business. For a young woman to dream of ledgers, denotes she will have a solid business man to make her a proposal of marriage. To dream that your ledger has worthless accounts, denotes bad management and losses; but if the accounts are good, then your business will assume improved conditions.
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Examples
- It was a small, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a telephone projecting from the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now turn that up in the ledger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is not for love or beauty, but for ledger and broadcloth, he is going to break a spear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When I give a vote I must know what I am doing; I must look to what will be the effects on my till and ledger, speaking respectfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I banish the false wretch from this moment, and I strike him out of my Cupidon (my name for my Ledger, my dear,) this very night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The first one of these was placed in the office of the _Philadelphia Ledger_ in 1846, and had four impression cylinders, printing 8,000 papers per hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One of the latest developments of the adding machine is a type that will post ledgers and statements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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