worksheet
- noun
- /ˈwɜːrkˌʃiːt/
- Specialized
- A review of his longhand worksheet shows that between the time he originally prepared his betting entry (Sunday evening) and the time it was faxed to our home (Monday afternoon), he changed his mind about the races in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
- financial worksheet
- Excel worksheet
Examples
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This requires the use of a preprogrammed Excel worksheet that contains explanations and instructions on how to process the data.
Academic text (2010) -
Zarfo scrutinized the worksheet.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's one line which gets the worksheet in column zero.
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I printed out a Christmas budget worksheet so I can keep better track.
Blog text (2) -
Table I represents a small Microsoft Excel worksheet.
Academic text (2002) -
In its complete form, much too extensive to print, the worksheet from which Table 2 is drawn includes the hundred and fifty most common words, ranging down to those that occur about once in every thousand in the main database.
Academic text (2002) -
Learners were expected to participate at a memorization level, completing drill and practice worksheets on a daily basis.
Academic text (2002) -
The four WISC-III factor indexes and four WIAT composite scores were entered onto the worksheet at Step 1.
Academic text (1994) -
Sessions when the percentage of correct digits fell below the 95% accuracy standard associated with fluent performance are marked <95%. C and I indicate correct and incorrect digits for the invalid worksheet (simpler than usual problems) used only on session 6.
Academic text (2011) -
The accountant used a detailed worksheet to organize the financial figures for the annual budget.
Synonyms
A computer program for organizing numbers and information in rows and columns and doing simple calculations
Thick paper people use to write and keep business records
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Morphology
Etymology
Worksheet comes from the two simple English words work ('task') and sheet ('piece of paper'), and in accounting it became the page used to record numbers and calculations in rows and columns. So an accounting worksheet is the 'sheet' you use to organize figures before making the final report.