EGAVE

ledger

About 2.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
  2. noun A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records. A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
  3. noun A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
  4. noun A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
  5. noun A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
  6. noun A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
  7. noun Ellipsis of ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
  8. verb To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.

Similar words

account book daybook book leger book of account books register accountant registry bookkeeping

Often followed by

accounts and account of is for in to card

Word family

ledgers

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