ledger
/ˈledʒə(r)/noun
उच्चारण लेजर
खाता-बही
Core word
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a book in which a bank, a business records the money it has paid and received
खाता-बही
- the account ledger
- The accountant checked every entry in the ledger before the audit began.
- The shopkeeper noted each sale in his ledger.
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- Auditors found a mistake in the company ledger.
- The clerk updated the ledger at the end of the day.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
ledger (countable noun)
A ledger is a book or file of accounts; it is countable, so you can say a ledger or the ledgers.
Ledger हिसाब-किताब की बही या फ़ाइल है; यह countable noun है, इसलिए 'a ledger' या 'ledgers' कहा जाता है।
- The shopkeeper opened the ledger and checked the day's sales.
- All the ledgers are kept in the office cupboard.
in the ledger
Use in when you mean the entries recorded inside the book.
बही के भीतर दर्ज प्रविष्टियों के लिए 'in' का प्रयोग होता है।
- Your payment has been entered in the ledger.
- I could not find the amount in the ledger.
ledger + noun (compound)
Ledger often works as a modifier in accounting terms such as ledger account, ledger balance and ledger entry.
Accounting शब्दों में ledger प्रायः modifier की तरह आता है, जैसे ledger account, ledger balance और ledger entry।
- The ledger balance did not match the bank statement.
- Each ledger entry must carry a date.
keep / maintain a ledger
The usual verbs with ledger are keep, maintain, update and balance.
Ledger के साथ सामान्य क्रियाएँ keep, maintain, update और balance हैं।
- Our accountant keeps a separate ledger for each department.
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adjective + ledger
generalsalespurchasecashbank
- The clerk posted the invoice to the purchase ledger.
verb + ledger
keepupdateauditbalancemaintain
- The auditor will audit the ledger next week.
ledger + noun
accountbalanceentrybookclerk
- Every ledger entry must match a receipt.
ledger + preposition
in thefrom theof theon the
- The error was found in the ledger of the last quarter.
ledger + of
accountstransactionsdebtsexpenses
- She keeps a ledger of household expenses.
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- The bank clerk checked the ledger to find the missing deposit.
बैंक क्लर्क ने गायब जमा राशि खोजने के लिए ledger जाँचा।
- My grandfather still writes his accounts in a handwritten ledger.
मेरे दादाजी आज भी अपना हिसाब हाथ से लिखी ledger में रखते हैं।
- A single wrong figure can throw the whole ledger out of balance.
एक गलत अंक पूरी ledger का संतुलन बिगाड़ सकता है।
- Commerce students learn how to post entries from the journal to the ledger.
Commerce के विद्यार्थी सीखते हैं कि journal से ledger में प्रविष्टियाँ कैसे की जाती हैं।
- Companies now keep an online ledger instead of a heavy paper register.
कंपनियाँ अब भारी कागज़ी रजिस्टर की जगह online ledger रखती हैं।
- Before computers, a village trader recorded every loan in his cloth-bound ledger.
कंप्यूटर से पहले गाँव का व्यापारी हर उधार को अपनी कपड़े की जिल्द वाली ledger में दर्ज करता था।
!Common mistakes 1
✗ The accountant has entered the amount on the ledger.
✓ The accountant has entered the amount in the ledger.
Entries are recorded in a ledger, so use in.
प्रविष्टियाँ ledger के भीतर दर्ज होती हैं, इसलिए 'in' आएगा।
≠Thesaurus: which synonym when
All three are record books, but only the ledger holds the final summary of money accounts.
तीनों अभिलेख-पुस्तकें हैं, पर पैसे के खातों का अंतिम सार केवल ledger में होता है।
The main book in which all the accounts of a business are summarised.
वह मुख्य बही जिसमें किसी व्यवसाय के सभी खाते संक्षेप में दर्ज होते हैं।
- The ledger showed a profit this month.
The book where transactions are first written in order of date, before they go to the ledger.
वह बही जिसमें लेन-देन पहले तारीख़ के क्रम में लिखे जाते हैं, ledger में जाने से पहले।
- Each sale was first noted in the journal.
A general book of names, dates or attendance, not necessarily about money.
नाम, तारीख़ या उपस्थिति की सामान्य पुस्तक, जरूरी नहीं कि पैसे से जुड़ी हो।
- The teacher marked attendance in the register.
✓In the exam
General knowledge
Computer GK: blockchain is a shared digital ledger.
Computer GK में blockchain एक साझा डिजिटल खाता-बही है।