ledgers

plural of ledger
as in records
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 ledgers 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 Along with collaborating with other team members, duties include managing ledgers and overseeing financial accuracy. Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026 Distance a joist spans between the support beams and ledgers. Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026 The app turns bank transactions, cash spending and cryptocurrency holdings into colorful, easy-to-scan charts instead of dense ledgers. Sharon Wu, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Embossed business cards, account ledgers, bins of bolts at the hardware store—all are pleasurable physical artifacts that have been more or less outmoded by technology. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 June 2026 Banks continue to maintain separate ledgers, disconnected risk systems and fragmented compliance databases. Meelan Gupta, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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Noun
  • Taele was being held without bail, according to county jail records.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
  • He was never charged with a crime and the Department of Children and Family Services did not find evidence to substantiate allegations of child abuse, according to records released in court filings.
    Rachel Scott, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Four accounts across four services were involved, and Hugging Face’s forensic timeline documents 17,600 distinct actions across four days.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 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 Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • According to city documents, the Development Process Committee conditionally approved the annexation, rezoning and variances in July.
    Emily McLeod, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • This assertion kicked off more than 20 minutes of contentious back-and-forth, in which Kennedy made a number of false and misleading statements about a range of topics including measles, autism and Lyme disease.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Zoll and Pohlad each followed suit with statements that basically made Buxton untouchable.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Operating expenses fell 2%, owing to lower restructuring costs.
    Justina Lee, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The program covers up to 80% of the costs to rent and provides $10,000 grants to cover the costs of things like permit fees and insurance expenses.
    Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026

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“Ledgers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ledgers. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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