ledger

CEFRB2

/ˈlɛd͡ʒə/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A book or computer record of financial accounts.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

Examples

  • The clerk made an entry in his ledger.

  • There are many questionable points in this ledger.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.

  2. A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.

  3. A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.

More examples

In context

  • Our ledger has no entry for the human pain caused by war.

  • My eyes kept glancing nervously to a spot on the side table just beyond the ring of light, where the ledgers containing the old church minutes were stacked.

  • Ever grateful for his perfect recall, the policeman carefully transcribed Mr. Welch's tedious rant word for word in his ledger.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English liggere, ligger, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from liggen, leggen, variants of līen (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English liċġan (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian Lägger (“floor board, joist, plank”), West Frisian lêger (“beam, plank”), Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”). The verb is derived from the noun.