passbook

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noun

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.

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Meanings

nounpassbook (plural passbooks)

plural passbooks

  1. bankingA 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. datedA book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.

    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?

    1878, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, volume 26, page 254
  3. South AfricahistoricalA kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks

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APA

passbook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passbook

MLA

“passbook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passbook. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “passbook,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passbook.

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