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WRITTEN ACCOUNT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written document preserving knowledge of facts or events
Synonyms:
written account; written record
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("written account" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "written account"):
worksheet (a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project)
interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)
statute book (a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction)
minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)
minutes; proceedings; transactions (a written account of what transpired at a meeting)
register; registry (an official written record of names or events or transactions)
copy; transcript (a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record))
time sheet (a record of the hours worked by employees)
timecard (a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day)
paper trail (the written evidence of someone's activities)
note (a brief written record)
log (a written record of messages sent or received)
log (a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane))
entry (an item inserted in a written record)
dossier (a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record))
chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)
casebook (a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work)
blotter; charge sheet; day book; police blotter; rap sheet (the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station)
Instance hyponyms:
Domesday Book; Doomsday Book (record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror)
