| 单词 | account book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaccount book account book n. a book prepared for the keeping of accounts or in which accounts are kept; a ledger. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book book of account1444 accounts book1461 counting-book15.. accounting booka1555 account book1590 count-book1607 codicila1704 viewbook1718 bill-book1774 stock book1835 account ledger1879 1590 R. Parsons 2nd Pt. Bk. Christian Exercise i. 13 For as in things of this life, he were but a foolish Merchant, that for quietnesse sake would neuer looke into his account Booke, whether he were behind hand or before. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 535 He represents the Account-Book of some of the wealthy Men of that Age. 1788 E. Pendleton Let. 1 Nov. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 548 These defendants..say that on the Account Book of their testator they found the following Articles charged to the Complainant. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. xxix. 460 If the account-books of twenty years of confusion..were not forthcoming and in order, they were to be proceeded against without mercy. 1930 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Diary Provinc. Lady 175 Spend the evening trying to reconcile grave discrepancy between account-book, counterfoils of cheque-book, and rather unsympathetically worded communication from the Bank. 2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 354 She faked offense, checking an account book, but warning him that she′d need a fresh blip of dollars if his next voyage was as long as his last. < as lemmas |
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