ledger

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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Recent Examples on the Web Catch up fast: The Bitcoin halving took place in April, cutting in half the block reward won by a miner that wins the contest to validate and add transactions to Bitcoin's ledger. Brady Dale, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024 From there, they were ferried to Braavos and then disappeared from the historical ledger. Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 July 2024 Shared Collections Eastern Kentucky University American Slavery Collection Sixteen documents, including slave bills of sale, tell the cruel story of the enslaved lives that were listed in ledgers. JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 From artificial intelligence to augmented reality and virtual reality, biotechnology, blockchain, distributed ledger and geoengineering, this is the most complex combination of transformative technologies ever witnessed in our planetary and human history. Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ledger 

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“Ledger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledger. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.

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