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verb (inf=to cook the books, cooks the books, cooking the books, cooked the books)
  1. (idiom) To manipulate accounting information, esp. illegally, by a corporation
w:Enron, Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books.
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