Meaning

3 senses
  1. A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account or current account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.

  2. (dated)A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.

  3. (South Africa, historical)A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.

More definitions
  • a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks

Origin

From pass + book.

From pass + book.

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Forms

plural: passbooks
Singularpassbook
Pluralpassbooks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks:bankbook

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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