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Account Book

Definition: Account Book

Account Book

Noun

1. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Account Book

Synonyms: book (n), book of account (n), ledger (n), leger (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Account Book

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Accounts

Books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book; journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account; account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Account Book

English words defined with "account book": carrypost. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Account Book

DomainTitle

Books

  • Old Drury of Philadelphia: A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 1800-1835, Including the Diary or Daily Account Book of William Burke Wood, Co-manager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Familiarly Known as Old Drury (reference)

  • The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, Xv, British Academy) (reference)

  • Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner, 1532-1555: The Account Book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage (reference)

  • The Account Book for the Borough of Swansea, Wales 1640-1660: A Study in Local Administration During the Civil War and Interregnum (Welsh Studies, V) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Account Book

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Farm Security Administration home supervisor examining account book of rehabilitation clients. Otoe County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

County supervisor helping rehabilitation family with account book. Dawson County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home supervisor and county supervisor helping wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower with account book. Labette County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower working on farm account book. Jackson County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Account Book

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

account book

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Account Book

Language Translations for "account book"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

register (record, register). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏دفتر الحسابات (ledger). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rol (character, cylinder, drum, list, part, record, register, role, roll, roller), register (index, record, register), huishoudboek. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

yvirlit (index, magazine, periodical, record, register, revue, table, tablet, tabulation), skrá (index, record, register, table, tablet, tabulation), listi (record, register). (various references)

   

German

  

geschäftsbuch (register). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τεφτέρι (notebook). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

帳簿 (register). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けいさ"ぼ, ちょうぼ (enlistment, recruitment, register), ちょうめ" (note book), いふくちょう, いちょう (colon, ledger, register). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lioar choontys (journal). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

regester (record, register). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accountay ookbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

registro (adjustment fire, book, cartulary, enrollment, enrolment, entry, filing, gate, inventory, ledger, list, meter, record, recording, register, registration, registry, regulator, roster, stocktaking), livro de contabilidade. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

registru de conturi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

registro (book, bookmark, county, exam, inspection, marker, record, recording, register, registration, registry, search, searching, stop), libro de cuentas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

register (calendar, cartulary, enrollment, enrolment, index, range, record, register, register office, registry, repertory, roll, schedule, table). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hesap cüzdanı (bank book, passbook). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Account Book

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

calendarium, matrix. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Account Book

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-k-n-o-o-o-t-u"

-3 letters: cockatoo, cockboat, cocoanut.

-4 letters: account, backout, coconut, cookout, cutback, cutbank, outback, outcook, tobacco.

-5 letters: bouton, cobnut, cocoon, cuckoo, toucan, uncock, untack.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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