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In business and accounts, actuals are the numbers for what really happened — money spent, goods sold, hours used — rather than the budget, the guess, or the target (what people thought would happen). A manager asks, “What were the actuals for July?” meaning the real figures, not the plan. The word is almost always plural in this use: you compare actuals to budget. It is workplace English; you will not hear it much outside offices, , and meetings. It comes from actual (real) used as a noun, then given a plural. Though actually, in older trade talk actuals could also mean real goods as opposed to paper contracts; the number-meaning is the one students meet now.
實際數、實際發生的數字(會計、業報用語,對照「預算數」「預估數」。不是形容詞 actual 的複數玩法。)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
actualsnoun
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accountingbusinessfinanceDocumented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
- This year's projections are above prior year actuals by five percent.
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businessfinancePhysical commodities (physicals) or financial instruments which are traded in futures contracts.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。