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ruled off

ruled off is the simple past and past participle of rule off.

Meaning of rule off

Verb

rule off (third-person singular simple present rules off, present participle ruling off, simple past and past participle ruled off)

  1. (transitive) To draw a line underneath, for example to mark the end of a topic or of an accounting period.
    • The correctness of the accounts receivable ledger is ascertained by comparison of its balance with that of the control account. The practice of arbitrarily ruling off accounts in the ledger at the end of each month because of the fact that creamery operation usually is divided into monthly periods...1917, John Regester Humphrey, George Anton Nahstoll, Accounting Records for Country Creameries, page 15

Questions about ruled off

What is ruled off the simple past and past participle of?
Ruled off is the simple past and past participle of rule off.

Words near ruled off in the dictionary

  1. rulebreaker
  2. rulebreakers
  3. rulebreaking
  4. ruled
  5. ruled in
  6. ruled off
  7. ruled OK
  8. ruled on
  9. ruled out
  10. ruled surface directrices
  11. ruled surface directrix

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