as in record
a book that a company uses to record information about the money it has paid and received
The accountant went over the company's ledgers at the end of the fiscal year.
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By the end, Sinner, the second Italian to win a singles title at the U.S. Open, joining 2015 women's champion Flavia Pennetta, had an impressive ledger: just 21 unforced errors, 13 fewer than Fritz, and 23 winners.
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CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
Cobre partners with financial institutions and opens accounts where its customers and their payees bank (as transfers within the same bank are instantaneous), and keeps an internal ledger of the money movement.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
On the positive side of the ledger, three Draghi suggestions in particular offer the continent a promise of greater economic dynamism.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
How it's supposed to work: People write bitcoin transactions with their crypto wallets, which sends them to the network, where a miner plucks the message out, and writes it onto a ledger with a bunch of other transactions.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
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CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
Cobre partners with financial institutions and opens accounts where its customers and their payees bank (as transfers within the same bank are instantaneous), and keeps an internal ledger of the money movement.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
On the positive side of the ledger, three Draghi suggestions in particular offer the continent a promise of greater economic dynamism.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
How it's supposed to work: People write bitcoin transactions with their crypto wallets, which sends them to the network, where a miner plucks the message out, and writes it onto a ledger with a bunch of other transactions.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Ledger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledger. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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