Definitions for Ledger

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Ledger ledg·er

Spelling: [lej-er]

IPA: /ˈlɛdʒ ɛr/

Ledger is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Ledger (deeglr).

Definitions for Ledger

noun

1. Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded.
2. Building Trades. a horizontal timber fastened to the vertical uprights of a scaffold, to support the putlogs. ribbon (def 8).
3. a flat slab of stone laid over a grave or tomb.
4. Also, leger. Angling. a lead sinker with a hole in one end through which the line passes, enabling the bait and the sinker to rest on the bottom and allowing the fish to take the bait without detecting the sinker.

Origin of Ledger

1475-85; earlier legger book, probably equivalent to legg(en) to lay¹ + -er -er¹

Examples for Ledger

On the positive side of the ledger, as the barriers to entry have been reduced, more opinions are available than ever before.

His position was clearly credited and debited in the ledger of life.

Sears and Elizabeth were bending over the ledger and Egbert opened the door.

He dipped his pen in the inkwell and carefully made an entry in the ledger.

He entered the amounts in the "ledger," and then returned to his seat.

"Enter it in the ledger, Mr. James," said McMurtagh, with another gasp.

He drummed on the ledger with his fingerless hand adding: “I pay him very badly, but he thinks it a good bargain.”

On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic.

Even with body parts taken off ledger, there is undeniably a lot of dough in plastics.

Things on the other side of the ledger, at a pH above 7, are alkaline (also called “basic” as in acid-base).