waste book meaning

• noun
    A day book or journal, or a rougher record preliminary to it

• Bleaching of deinked pulp from waste book and magazine paper
• A "'waste book "'was one of the books traditionally used in bookkeeping.
• It differs from a daybook in that only a single waste book is kept, rather than a separate daybook for each of several categories.
• The name of the book derives from the fact that, once its information was transferred to the journal, the waste book was unneeded.
• The waste book was intended for temporary use only; the information needed to be transcribed into a journal in order to begin to balance one's accounts.
• Later Bacon supporters found similarities between a great number of specific phrases and aphorisms from the plays and those written by Bacon in his waste book, the " Promus ".
• Leo Tolstoy held Lichtenberg's writings in high esteem, expressing his perplexity of " why the Germans of the present day neglect this writer so much . " The Chinese scholar and wit Qian Zhongshu quotes the " Waste books " in his works several times.

• "waste book" meaning in Chinese: 【簿】流水账。
• "waste book" meaning in Japanese: 当座付け込み帳｛とうざ つけこみちょう｝