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单词 to balance one's account
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to balance (also square) one's account (also accounts)
(a) to balance (also square) one's account (also accounts) and variants: (a) (also with with) to pay or receive the balance shown by a statement of account (also figurative); (b) to ensure that the credits and debits on an account sheet are equivalent.to adjust the accounts: see adjust v.2 1c.
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1628 Petition Governor & Co. Merchants E. Indies 28 Which sum wee may thereupon affirme is brought to vs in Treasure to ballance the accompt.
1796 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 383 Thus we balance the account;—defeat and dishonour abroad; oppression at home.
1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 19 It may therefore be worth while at this commencement of a new year for us to balance accounts with our readers, and, in the trader's phrase, to ‘take stock’.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. xx. 203 When you have squared your account with ‘delicacy’..come to me.
1920 System Nov. 921 (advt.) With McCaskey Visible Accounting, only..the original entry..is required to post and balance the account ready for instant settlement.
1996 Independent 11 Sept. 13/5 If they [sc. Churches] conduct themselves according to the laws of the land, balance their accounts and avoid the attentions of the Charity Commissioners, they deserve a degree of privacy.
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