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passbook

passbook 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.

Noun

passbook (plural passbooks)

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

passbook meaning in Tamil and Gujarati

passbook in Tamil

கணக்குப் புத்தகம், பற்றுவரவுப் புத்தகம்

passbook in Gujarati

passbook
પાસબુક pāsbuk

Forms of passbook

pluralpassbooks

Origin of passbook

From pass + book.

Questions about passbook

What does passbook mean?
Passbook means 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.
What is passbook in Tamil?
Passbook in Tamil is கணக்குப் புத்தகம், பற்றுவரவுப் புத்தகம். See Passbook meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is passbook?
Passbook is a noun.
What is the plural of passbook?
The plural of passbook is passbooks.

Words near passbook in the dictionary

  1. passaunt
  2. Passavant
  3. passback
  4. passband
  5. passbands
  6. passbook
  7. passbooks
  8. passby
  9. passbye
  10. passbyes
  11. passbys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passbook (page history and authors); passbook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પાસબુક (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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