passbook
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passbook (plural passbooks)
- (banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
- (dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
- 1878, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 26, page 254:
- Mr Campbell Swinston.—Supposing there were no stronger reason than that against the continuance of grocers' licences, could not that evil be very easily put an end to by making a single false entry in the passbook the ground for forfeiting the grocer's certificate?
- (South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
Translations[edit]
booklet used to record bank transactions — see bankbook
