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trial balance

a statement of the debit and credit balances of all open accounts in a double-entry bookkeeping ledger to test their equality

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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