trial balances
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pluralof trial balance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
trial balancenouna statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
Example Sentences
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I couldn't stick night after night over one of those trial balances of yours.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
Five years ago he graduated from a business college, but the preparation of bannock and sow-belly appeals to the blood more insistently than trial balances and the petty cash book.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Perhaps the taking of trial balances is not my forte; but it seems to me that those invoices, when you bring them, will make it all right.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic
He was bookkeeper of the general store in Bloomfield, but he had never got to the point where he was absolutely sure of his trial balances.
From Stubble by George Looms