Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A day set apart once in each half month for the adjustment of differences between brokers on the English stock exchange. A similar practice prevails in the Continental bourses.
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All this (for be sure no falsehood perishes, but is as seed sown out to grow) has been storing itself for thousands of years; and now the account-day has come.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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