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(pluralonly, accounting) Accounting records.

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(plural only) Official documents or identification, as a passport.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers ; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}

He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.