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ledger

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/

The English word “ledger” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
  2. A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
  3. A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
  4. A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
  5. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
  6. A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

verb

  1. To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
  2. To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
  3. To engage in bottom fishing.

Etymology

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…

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