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double entry

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double entry
n.
A method of bookkeeping in which a transaction is entered both as a debit to one account and a credit to another account, so that the totals of debits and credits are equal.
double entry
n
(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Accounting & Book-keeping)
a.  a book-keeping system in which any commercial transaction is entered as a debit in one account and as a credit in another Compare single entry
b.  (as modifier) double-entry book-keeping
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Noun1.double entry - bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another
double-entry bookkeeping
bookkeeping, clerking - the activity of recording business transactions


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Formerly book-keeper at the Treasury, when that establishment kept its books by double entry, the Sieur Saillard was compensated for the loss of that position by his appointment as cashier of a ministry.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
If he had taught me book-keeping by double entry and after the Italian method, as he did Lucy Bertram, I could teach you, Tom.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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