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Definition: Double Entry |
Double EntryNoun1. Bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A method of bookkeeping in which there are two entries for each transaction, one as a debit and the other as a credit, that check and balance each other. (references) |
Mining | A. A pair of entries in flat or gently dipping coal so laid out that rooms can be driven from both entries; twin entries. See also:entr b. A system of ventilation by which the air current is brought into the rooms through one entry and out through a parallel entry or air course. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Double EntrySynonym: double-entry bookkeeping (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accounts | Bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Double Entry |
| Specialty definitions using "double entry": Book-keeping ♦ contra account ♦ offset account ♦ twin entry. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I'll have to use the double entry system soon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | All Ukrainian banks formally converted to international accounting standards on January 1, 1998 but international accounting standards are not required outside of the banking sector, requiring many foreign investors to keep double entry books, one entry with Ukrainian accounting standards and one entry following international standards (IAS) for use by the parent company. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "double entry": bookkeeping by double entry ♦ double entry bookkeeping. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
double entry door | 23 |
double entry | 19 |
double entry accounting | 14 |
double entry journal | 11 |
double entry book keeping | 11 |
double entry accounting system | 2 |
sex double entry | 2 |
door double entry front | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "double entry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podvojnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dobbelt bogholderi (accounts kept by the double entry method, double-entry accounting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | methode van dubbel boekhouden (accounts kept by the double entry method, double-entry accounting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaksinkertainen kirjanpito (book-keeping by double entry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | méthode de comptabilité dite "en partie double". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rechnungsführung in Form der doppelten Buchführung (accounts kept by the double entry method, double-entry accounting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μέθοδος λογιστική καλούμενη "διπλογραφική μέθοδος", διπλογραφία (double entry bookkeeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kettõs könyvvitel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | metodo di contabilit della "partita doppia". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oubleday entryay partida dobrada. (various references) contabilitate în partidã dublã (book-keeping by double entry). (various references) с двойным входом (double-entry), двойная бухгалтерия. (various references) partida doble. (various references) räkenskapsystemet för dubbel bokföring (accounts kept by the double entry method, double-entry accounting). (various references) çift taraflı kayıt, çift taraflı defter tutma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-n-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: tourneyed. | |
-3 letters: bouldery, butylene, deuteron, outbreed, redolent, redouble, rondelet, rotundly, roundlet, tenderly, troubled, unbelted, unbolted, underlet. | |
-4 letters: blender, blonder, blunder, blunted, blunter, blurted, boulder, bounder, brutely, bundler, butlery, deboner, denture, doubler, doublet, doubter, elytron, enrobed, erodent, eyebolt, notedly, obtrude, outbred, reblend, rebound, redbone, redoubt, retuned, roundel, roundly, rundlet, tenured, toluene, tourney, trebled, trouble. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 62 6C 65 45 6E 74 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u b l e   E n t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0062 006C 0065 0045 006E 0074 0072 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818768787123980868491 |
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