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double-entry

a. Describing a method of bookkeeping in which each transaction is entered in two accounts, for debits and for credits

Usage examples of "double-entry".

Ever since the Soviet Union so unsportingly disbanded in order to pursue protocapitalism and double-entry bookkeeping, our warlords have been anxiously searching for new enemies in order to justify an ever increasing military budget.

Luca Paccioli — inventor of double-entry accounting, "Father of Bookkeeping"—R.