trial balance

1. 1.

   a balance of debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping; drawn up to test their equality

   Broaderbalance

Questions about trial balance

What does trial balance mean?

trial balance means "a balance of debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping; drawn up to test their equality".

Is trial balance a common word?

trial balance 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.