pocketbook

[ pok-it-book ]
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noun
  1. a person's financial resources or means: The price was out of reach of his pocketbook.

  1. Also pock·et book . a book, usually paperback, that is small enough to carry in one's coat pocket.

  2. British.

    • a notebook for carrying in one's pocket.

    • a wallet or billfold.

Origin of pocketbook

1
First recorded in 1610–20; pocket + book

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How to use pocketbook in a sentence

  • He tore out the editorial and put it away carefully in his pocketbook as Montgomery was called.

    A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
  • Then he woke her up, and I took out a pocketbook and said: "Here is what you asked me for this morning, my dear cousin."

  • "Well, I declare," muttered the Deacon, as he fished a greenback out of a leather pocketbook fastened with a long strap.

  • "I can," put in Frank, immediately producing his pocketbook.

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery | Burt L. Standish
  • "Pretty well filled, too," he added, opening the pocketbook and looking into it.

    From Farm to Fortune | Horatio Alger Jr.

British Dictionary definitions for pocketbook

pocketbook

/ (ˈpɒkɪtˌbʊk) /


nounUS and Canadian
  1. a small bag or case for money, papers, etc, carried by a handle or in the pocket

  2. (modifier) concerned with personal finance: pocketbook issues

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