book of account
Americannoun
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any journal, ledger, and supporting vouchers included in a system of accounts.
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books of account, the original records and books used in recording business transactions.
noun
Example Sentences
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Yea, sir, I may thank you of all; If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account full ready now had be.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account full ready now had be.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Yea, sir, I may thank you of all; If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account now full ready had be.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
At a small desk within a few feet of him a middle-aged woman with a cold, hard face sat with a book of account before her and a pile of bills.
From A Maker of History by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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