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Pocketbook   /pˈɑkətbˌʊk/   Listen
Pocketbook

noun
1.
Your personal financial means.
2.
A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money.  Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet.
3.
Pocket-sized paperback book.  Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition.
4.
A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).  Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse.



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"Pocketbook" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite ten minutes afterward, his shadow once more fell across the kitchen floor. He had not really gone yet. Here he was back again at the kitchen door, staring reflectively at his grubby little pocketbook. ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... enough; but I don't see that it entails upon me the duty of laying out all I've saved on a new house. I know what you fellows are—when you begin to draw plans your love of the ideal runs away with the other man's pocketbook." ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... To find a pocketbook filled with bills and money in your dreams, you will be quite lucky, gaining in nearly every instance your desire. If empty, you will be disappointed in some ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... follows that the farmer's attention is driven from family and neighborhood affairs out into the modern world with all its complexities. He thinks in social terms, because from experience he has learned his social dependence in matters that concern the pocketbook. With painful evidences of his economic interrelations in mind, he tends to become tolerant regarding movements that attempt to socialize his community life. He realizes that the independence of his fathers ...
— Rural Problems of Today • Ernest R. Groves
... the Count to take the money out himself, received it into his left hand, motioned the pocketbook to be returned to the pocket, all this being done to the sweet thrilling of flutes and clarionets sustained by the emotional drone of the hautboys. And the "young man," as the Count called him, said: "This seems ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad


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