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Definition of Daybook

1. Noun. A ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred.

2. Noun. An accounting journal as a physical object. "He bought a new daybook"

Definition of Daybook

1. n. A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

Definition of Daybook

1. Noun. A daily chronicle; a diary. ¹

2. Noun. (context: bookkeeping) A ledger; an accounting journal. ¹

3. Noun. (context: nautical) A logbook. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Daybook

1. a diary [n -S] - See also: diary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daybook

day time day to day day trade day trader day trading day trip day trips day watch dayaks daybeam

daybeams daybed daybeds dayboat dayboats daybook (current term) daybooks dayboy daybreak daybreaks

daycare daycarer daycarers daycares daycation daycations daycoach daycoaches daydream daydreamed

Literary usage of Daybook

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Standard Bookkeeping by Charles C. Curtiss (1902)
"The Model Journal-daybook, in which are recorded the transactions of the next two weeks, is to be carefully studied, in detail, by the student, ..."

2. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"A daybook CONTINUED FROM JANY 9th 1772 13th I sent to Lient Moors Mill and got \y, bushell of Rie Ground and I had the toal 17th I had my brors ..."

3. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"\Vhy Arrian has mentioned, as from the daybook, ... 3 Arrian, in his extract from the daybook has marked time only by the daily transactions. ..."

4. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"lr n an's Extract from the daybook. Plutarch's Extract from the daybook. First Day :—* Pint Day :—2 THAT he drank in festive ON the eighteenth day of the ..."

5. Bookkeeping and Accounting Exercises by Robert Joseph Bennett (1912)
"EXERCISE 13 Supplying daybook Entries Give daybook explanations that would accompany each of the following Journal entries : It is of course understood that ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1885)
"Fox. consisting of his daybook and ledger. The questions put to him by the defendant's attorney are not given in the case, but the continuation of his ..."

7. Modern Illustrative Bookkeeping: Designed as a Text-book for All Schools by E. Virgil Neal, C. T. Cragin (1900)
"The books which you will keep in this work are the journal-daybook, cash book, sales book and ledger. ..."

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