passbook
pronunciation
How to pronounce passbook in British English:
UK [ˈpɑːsbʊk]
How to pronounce passbook in American English:
US [ˈpæsbʊk]
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- Noun:
- a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks
Word Origin
- passbook (n.)
- also pass-book, 1828, from pass (v.) + book (n.); apparently the notion is of the document "passing" between bank and customer.
Example
- 1. Several days later , mother left the three children a passbook per person .
- 2. The passbook is not money ( because of the time restriction on it ) , and you cannot buy things with it .
- 3. We see personal artifacts , too -- a young man 's passbook , a neatly made bed , a family photograph , makeup , a tea cup .
- 4. He kept his coins at home in a drawer , sometimes adding to the $ 20 his father had given him when he turned six , all recorded in a little maroon passbook - his first bank account .
- 5. When italy joined the war in 1915 he switched to an italian alpine regiment , but only because two policemen marched him bodily to turin ; and he kept his french military passbook carefully on him through three years as a machine-gunner , until he was able to return to paradise again .