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Leger

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Leg´er    (lĕj´ẽr)
n.1.Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
2.A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.
Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome.
- Fuller.
3.A ledger.
a.1.Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.
1.Light; slender; slim; trivial.
Leger line
(Mus.) a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass; - called also added line.
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Noun1.Legerleger - a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
record - a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"
cost ledger - ledger showing the accumulated costs classified in various ways
general ledger - the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts)
subsidiary ledger - details of an account supporting the amount stated in the general ledger
daybook, journal - a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred
accounting system, method of accounting, accounting - a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
2.Leger - French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955)


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The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price,--and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature.
Leger, and the colloquy between the Rector and his wife ended.
 
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