entry has definitions from the field of accounting
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[ noun ] an item inserted in a written record

Used in print

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor 's notes on an emergency case .

2
[ noun ] the act of beginning something new

Examples

"they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"

Used in print

(Allan J. Braff and Roger F. Miller, "Wage-Price...)

Where the industry 's product price has been kept below the `` profit_maximizing '' and `` entry limiting '' prices due_to fears of public reaction , the profit seeking producers have an interest in offering little real resistance to wage demands .

For the industry of this model , the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ) , and even below the entry limited price ( but not below average_cost ) .

The entry limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition , but unless general inflation permits profit_margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy , we might expect the public limit price to approach the entry limit price .

The entry limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition , but unless general inflation permits profit_margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy , we might expect the public limit price to approach the entry limit price .

The foreign entry limit price would be approached more rapidly , since domestic wage rates do not enter foreign costs directly .

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[ noun ] (accounting) a written record of a commercial transaction

Used in print

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

That first entry there is the Vermont_Flumenophobe , the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties - great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at_all .

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[ noun ] a message submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)

Synonyms

submission

Examples

"several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"

Used in print

(The New York Times,...)

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm_Van_Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching_job with the Minnesota_Vikings , the newest National_Football_League entry .

Related terms

message filing submit

5
[ noun ] something that allows access (entry or exit)

Examples

"they waited at the entrance to the garden" "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

A number of unique medical problems might be created when man is exposed to an infectious agent through the respiratory route rather_than by the natural portal of entry .

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[ noun ] the act of entering

Examples

"she made a grand entrance"

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