Overfoot

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To assign a column summary that is greater than the sum of all the entries in that column.

    "Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts."

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"Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts."

Etymology

From over- + foot.

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