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Definition of "double-entry" [double-entry]

  • Describing a method of bookkeeping in which each transaction is entered in two accounts, for debits and for credits (adjective)

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Use "double-entry" in a sentence
  • "We shall turn in a moment to this double-entry bookkeeping, as we ask about winners and losers among the major American religious traditions."
  • "Brian Harkin for The Wall Street Journal The three-level stone and wood-shake mansion spans some 12,500 square feet and has a double-entry staircase."
  • "Radiation leakage has been one concern until now about opening the double-entry doors, which block external and internal access to the reactor building."