general ledger vs leger

general ledger and leger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
general ledger	Yes	No	No	No
leger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, leger is a hypernym of general ledger; that is, leger is a word with a broader meaning than general ledger:

general ledger: the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts)
leger: a record in which commercial accounts are recorded

Other hypernyms of general ledger include account book, book, book of account, ledger.

general ledger (noun)	leger (noun)
the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts)	a record in which commercial accounts are recorded