ACCOUNT BOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does account book mean? 

• ACCOUNT BOOK (noun)
  The noun ACCOUNT BOOK has 1 sense:

1. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded

  Familiarity information: ACCOUNT BOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOUNT BOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A record in which commercial accounts are recorded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

account book; book; book of account; ledger; leger

Context example:

they got a subpoena to examine our books

Hypernyms ("account book" is a kind of...):

record (a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction)

Meronyms (members of "account book"):

accounting; accounting system; method of accounting (a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "account book"):

cost ledger (ledger showing the accumulated costs classified in various ways)

general ledger (the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts))

subsidiary ledger (details of an account supporting the amount stated in the general ledger)

daybook; journal (a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred)

 Context examples 

"No, for less than a week's work. Please pass me that book over on the far corner of the table, the account book with the gray cover."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)