single entry

noun

: a method of bookkeeping that recognizes only one side of a business transaction and usually consists only of a record of cash and personal accounts with debtors and creditors

Examples of single entry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But the common goal is to create a single entry point for services that have typically been siloed and difficult for patients to navigate, such as mental health care and housing support. —

Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024 There are significant disagreements over how many aid-laden trucks — now numbering between a handful and 200 entering Gaza each day from Egypt or a single entry point from Israel— will be required to meet what the United States has said needs to be a massive increase in humanitarian assistance. —

Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024 These transactions then get cryptographically linked together and posted to the main network as a single entry. —

Steve Larsen, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 Hosts from the same Program will be included in a single entry with all Hosts, Co-Hosts, Anchors and Correspondents on the same submission and the reel must contain footage that highlights all entrants. —

Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024 While traditional duvet covers open on one side, requiring a bed-maker to awkwardly slide a comforter through a single entry slot, Eisenberg’s Nuvet unzips on three sides. —

Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 While Terrell’s elementary and middle school campuses are limited to single entry points, the high school is complicated. —

Dallas News, 3 June 2022 Also, at Utica high school football games, all fans will file into the stadium through a single entry point where they will be required to pass through a metal detector. —

Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023 Time and again Russia has used its veto at the Security Council to shut border crossings, reducing the routes for delivery of cross-border aid via Turkey to a single entry. —

Raed Al Saleh, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023

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