account book

1. 1.

   a record in which commercial accounts are recorded

   “they got a subpoena to examine our books”

   Synonymsledgerlegerbook of accountbook

   Broaderrecord

   Narrowercost ledgergeneral ledgersubsidiary ledgerdaybook

Questions about account book

What does account book mean?

account book means "a record in which commercial accounts are recorded".

What is another word for account book?

Close synonyms include ledger, leger, book of account, book. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is account book a common word?

account book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.