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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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The storied exchange is betting that it can use the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin to reinvent the very system it spent centuries building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The claimants had a leaked "ledger" of Associated Newspaper payments, invoices from some private investigators and extracts from reporters notepads with cryptic handwritten details of payments to sources.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Like Aleys, Alouette forms alliances with other women, Sylvine and Marguerite, the latter of whom carefully documents the guards’ abuses in a ledger.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Better still, so long as I didn’t ask for any help from the scrivs, nothing would be recorded in the Archive’s ledger books.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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