Usually means: Manipulate financial data for fraud.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word cook the books:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cook the books: Merriam-Webster
  2. cook the books: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cook the books: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cook the books: Wordnik
  5. cook the books: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cook the books: Wiktionary
  7. cook the books: Dictionary.com
  8. Cook the Books (TV program), Cook the books: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. cook the books: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Cook the Books: The Word Detective
  11. cook the books: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. cook the books: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Cook The Books: Investopedia
  3. Cook the books: Financial dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. cook the books: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cook the books: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cook the books)

verb:  (idiomatic) To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
verb:  (idiomatic, by extension) To falsify an account of an event.

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