single entry

noun

, Bookkeeping.

1. an item noted only once.
2. a simple accounting system noting only amounts owed by and due to a business.

single entry

noun

1. 1. a simple book-keeping system in which transactions are entered in one account only Compare double entry
   2. ( as modifier )

      a single-entry account

Other Words From

• single-entry adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of single entry¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

But I'll keep the British invasion to a single entry you may not have heard of: House of Cards.

From The Daily Beast

The two have been merged into a single entry in the correct place.

From Project Gutenberg

Now three or four such entries would certainly set the matter at rest; but a single entry can not.

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I telled him that I should think that a single entry would be as many times as such a debt as ours ought to be chalked down.

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In single-entry matches no entry shall be made after the firing begins if any participant objects.

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Firstly, it is neither safe nor legitimate to make general inferences from a single entry in Domesday.

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