A contract in which the buyer and seller of work or services agree on (i) which costs are remunerable and (ii) the margin that the supplier can add to these costs. The project is then invoiced to the customer based on the actual costs incurred plus the agreed margin.

Alternative form of daybook

A record book in which all transactions (or all of a certain class) of a business are recorded and from entries are made in accounting records such as the general ledger or subsidiary ledgers.

simple past tense and past participle of cold boot

plural of book-signing

Obsolete form of textbook.

Any of various greasy preparations designed to be applied externally to leather footwear.

plural of boot-grease

(UK) An annual report to parliament from the Secretary of State for Energy.

Alternative form of pocketbook (“small-form book”)