Definitions for ledgers

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ledgers ledg·er

Spelling: [lej-er]

IPA: /ˈlɛdʒ ɛr/

Ledgers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in ledgers (deeglrs).

Definitions for ledgers

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 ledgers

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

Examples for ledgers

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

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

"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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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