ledger

Definition of ledgernext
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 of ledger Indian multilingualism, no less than French or Italian homogeneity, is a ledger with its own column of costs—communal tensions, constant incomprehension—to be weighed against its undoubted benefits. Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 The Big Ten also leads in the all-important financial ledgers when money matters to everyone. Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Myriad ledgers record artworks and exhibitions alongside the income that sustained Saar and her then-young daughters — Alison, Lezley and Tracye — after her 1970 divorce from Richard Saar. Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 Investigators in New York also obtained detailed ledgers of the gang’s bribe payments, which were referenced extensively in the Rocha indictment. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for ledger
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Noun
  • But more than a year of his time (worth $420,000 per his contract) is unaccounted for in the public records the city has released, Thad and Riley found.
    Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
  • The inside of her phone case tested positive for human blood, court records said.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Strantz, according to his LinkedIn account, is a sports business attorney who has served as the Rockets’ senior team counsel since July 2024.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Trial testimony indicated clients transferred upwards of $2 million to Engle, expecting the money to remain in those accounts until their loans were funded.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The drone breached the country’s airspace at dawn and was shot down in the eastern desert, the statement said.
    Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • Another cub born to a red panda named Ruby died this month, the zoo said in a statement.
    Phil Helsel, NBC news, 28 July 2026
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  • The conviction stemmed from a July 7, 2008, shooting in Kansas City, Kansas, that killed 21-year-old Rahi Larks, according to a document from the Kansas Supreme Court and previous reporting from The Star.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • That premium becomes difficult to preserve when an open-weight model produces adequate results for coding, document processing, translation, extraction or customer support.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Ledger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledger. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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