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1. Noun

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

2. Noun

The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.

3. Noun

That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.

4. Noun

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.

5. Noun

The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.

6. Noun

A putting upon record in proper form and order.

7. Noun

The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

8. Noun

something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance

9. Noun

a written record of a commercial transaction
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance
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