A computer program that organizes numerical data into rows and columns in order to calculate and make adjustments based on new data. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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a computer program that can show rows of figures and perform calculations with them. Spreadsheets are often used to work out sales, taxes, profits, and other financial information:
• Most spreadsheets provide a facility for creating graphs and charts from the information held in the model.
• spreadsheet and database programs
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spreadsheet UK US /ˈspredʃiːt/ noun [C] GRAPHS & CHARTS, IT
► a piece of computer software used for showing rows and columns of numbers or other data, and for doing calculations with this data: in/on a spreadsheet »
Information for the graphs can be entered on a spreadsheet.
open/create/make a spreadsheet »I created a spreadsheet to help analyse the sales data.
»spreadsheet programs/software
Financial and business terms. 2012.