ledger

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1. ledger - Noun

2. ledger - Verb

3. Ledger - Proper noun

Meaning

A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.

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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. Neil Armstrong

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. Henry Miller

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger. James Branch Cabell

A budget must be more than a ledger sheet. It should have a heart and serve as a blueprint for a better quality of life for all residents. John R. Leopold

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves. Robert Burton

My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger. Edsger W. Dijkstra

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