noun
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a statement of money etc. received, paid, expended by, owing to, receivable from, sold to, bought from, a person; an account.
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a book in which such an account is maintained; an account book.
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a government register in which the ownership of a property (esp. of piece of land) is registered.
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a division of a the government machinery; a department.
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the office of a minister of a state; a portfolio.