GENERAL LEDGER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("general ledger" is a kind of...):

account book; book; book of account; ledger; leger (a record in which commercial accounts are recorded)

Meronyms (parts of "general ledger"):

control account (an account that shows totals of amounts entered in a subsidiary ledger)

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