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Word entry · 5 letters

leger

Best crossword clue

"Old account book"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/Part of speech nounSorted eeglrStarts with LEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French legier, from Old French legier, apparently from Late Latin *leviārium, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Used in a sentence

  • a leger ambassador
  • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  • [T]his city of "merchants, whose counting-houses are their churches, whose money is their God, and whose legers, (defaced legers, of course, the delegate from Indiana will understand me,) whose legers are their bibles."

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