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trial balance

noun

Definition of TRIAL BALANCE

:  a list of the debit and credit balances of accounts in a double-entry ledger at a given date prepared primarily to test their equality
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First Known Use of TRIAL BALANCE

1838

Rhymes with TRIAL BALANCE

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