account book

English

Noun

account book (plural account books)

1. (accounting) A book in which accounts are kept; ledger.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 41

     When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. [...] The soul of man wanders through the uttermost regions of the universe, and she seeks to imprison it in the circle of her account-book.

Translations

a book in which accounts are kept

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帳簿／帐簿 (zh) (zhàngbù), 帐簿 (zh) (zhàngbù), 賬本／账本 (zh) (zhàngběn), 账本 (zh) (zhàngběn), 簿籍 (zh) (bùjí), 賬冊／账册 (zh) (zhàngcè), 账册 (zh) (zhàngcè), 冊歷／册历 (zh) (cèlì), 册历 (zh) (cèlì)

• Finnish: tilikirja (fi)
• French: livre de comptes m
• Georgian: დავთარი (davtari)
• German: Rechnungsbuch n, Geschäftsbuch n, Kontobuch n
• Ido: kontolibro (io)
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• Irish: leabhar cuntais m
• Italian: libro contabile (it) m
• Japanese: 帳簿 (ja) (ちょうぼ, chōbo), 台帳 (だいちょう, daichō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: calendārium n, ratiōnārium n, codex, caudex
• Norman: livre d'comptes m
• Russian: конто́рская кни́га (ru) f (kontórskaja kníga), гроссбу́х (ru) m (grossbúx), бухга́лтерская кни́га f (buxgálterskaja kníga), счётная кни́га f (sčótnaja kníga)
• Spanish: libro contable m

Further reading

• “account book”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “account book”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• book account