single entry

noun

, Bookkeeping.

single entry

1. a simple book-keeping system in which transactions are entered in one account only Compare double entry
2. ( as modifier )
  a single-entry account

First recorded in 1820–30

But I'll keep the British invasion to a single entry you may not have heard of: House of Cards.

The two have been merged into a single entry in the correct place.

Now three or four such entries would certainly set the matter at rest; but a single entry can not.

I telled him that I should think that a single entry would be as many times as such a debt as ours ought to be chalked down.

In single-entry matches no entry shall be made after the firing begins if any participant objects.

Firstly, it is neither safe nor legitimate to make general inferences from a single entry in Domesday.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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