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daybook

daybook

1 8.0
A book where a business writes daily sales and payments before they go into the main account book
  • noun
  • /ˈdeɪˌbʊk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : libro de registro

Examples

  • Just show me your daybook.

  • To help students who were absent, Ms. Wilson decided to keep her own daybook as a model.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Immediately following, students numbered the pages of their daybooks.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Ms. Wilson demonstrated and encouraged students to use their daybooks to engage in conversations about their reading.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Overall, daybooks enhanced students' understanding of comprehension strategies and how to document understanding about what they read.

    Academic text (2014)
  • In what ways does the use of daybooks exemplify the Gradual Release of Responsibility?

    Academic text (2014)
  • To keep up with the strategies readers use, Ms. Wilson labeled one section of the daybooks "Pop-up Thoughts."

    Academic text (2014)
  • The accountant recorded all transactions in the daybook before entering them into the ledger.

  • Every evening, she wrote her daily sales figures in the daybook to keep track of her finances.

  • At the end of the month, he reviewed his daybook to prepare the financial summary for his business.

Synonyms

book
vsdaybook
  • Specialized
537 3.7

A record that shows a business's money coming in and going out

is the initial daily record kept before entries join these general records
journal
vsdaybook
27 3.6

A book for writing money transactions in time order

is used for daily initial entries before posting to the main ledger
account book
vsdaybook
  • Specialized
1 2.3

A book or digital record where a business writes all money it gets and spends

is used for daily recording before those entries are summarized
book of account
vsdaybook
  • Specialized
5.1

A book where a business writes down all money it receives and pays

is for short daily records before they are entered into the official ledger

How Detailed

accounting system
  • Specialized
4 3.1
ledger
  • Specialized
57 5.0
cashbook
  • Specialized
1 3.6
daybook
  • Specialized
1 8.0

Surface Forms

daybook singular
daybooks plural

Morphology

daybook = day + book (transparent) = day + book

The meaning is directly derived from 'day' + 'book' as a book for daily records.

Etymology

The word daybook is literally day + book, meaning a book for 'daily' records. Think of it as a diary for business: people wrote each sale or payment in the daybook so they could later move it into the main account book.