ledger — led‧ger [ˈledʒə ǁ ər] noun [countable usually plural] ACCOUNTING one of the books or computer records showing the totals of items shown separately in the Books Of First Entry or day book S; = BOOK OF FINAL ENTRY: • Gone are the days of ledgers… … Financial and business terms
Ledger — bezeichnet: ein Papierformat in den USA und Kanada, siehe Papierformat#Nordamerika Ledger ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Bob Ledger (* 1937), englischer Fußballspieler Heath Ledger (1979–2008), australischer Schauspieler Robert Ledger ( … Deutsch Wikipedia
Ledger — Ledg er(l[e^]j [ e]r), n. [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ledger — account book, c.1400, from leggen to place, lay (see LAY (Cf. lay) (v.)). Originally a book that lies permanently in a place (especially a large copy of a breviary in a church). Sense of book of accounts is first attested 1580s, short for ledger… … Etymology dictionary
ledger — [lej′ər] n. [ME legger, prob. < ME leggen or liggen after MDu ligger: see LAY1, LIE1] 1. a large, flat stone placed over a tomb 2. a) a large, horizontal timber in a scaffold b) … English World dictionary
ledger — [n] account book books, daybook, journal, record book, register; concepts 271,280,801 … New thesaurus
ledger — ► NOUN ▪ a book or other collection of financial accounts. ORIGIN originally denoting a large bible or breviary: probably from variants of LAY(Cf. ↑lay) and LIE(Cf. ↑lie), influenced by Dutch legger and ligger … English terms dictionary
ledger — Synonyms and related words: Domesday Book, account, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bill … Moby Thesaurus
Ledger — A ledger or lieger (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen , to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger ), is the principal book for recording transactions. Originally, the term referred to a large volume of… … Wikipedia
ledger — A collection of accounts of a similar type. Traditionally, a ledger was a large book with separate pages for each account; in modern systems they will usually consist of computer records. The most common ledgers are the nominal ledger containing… … Accounting dictionary
