| 单词 | books |
| 释义 | books books // noun [pl.]
STATUTORY BOOKS
1 (Accounting ) (also account books) the written record of the financial affairs of a business: People who run their own business often do the books themselves. a bid to balance the books The bank is aiming to clear all bad loans off its books over the next year. SYN ACCOUNTS
❖ to audit/do/keep the books ◆ to balance the books
2 a record of the customers, orders and stock that a company has: There are no other large orders on the books. They found they had a lot more old stock on the books than previously thought. ⇨ BOOK noun (3)
IDIOMS
cook the books ( to put false information in a company's accounts: The books were cooked to make profits seem much higher than they were. (be) on sb's books (HR ) (to be) on an organization's list, for example the list of people who work for a company, or a list of people who are available for a particular type of work: It's the largest security firm in the UK with 10 000 staff on its books. The agency have no Spanish-speaking secretaries on their books at the moment. |
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