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pocket-book

pocket-book is the alternative form of pocketbook.

Meaning of pocketbook

Noun

pocketbook (plural pocketbooks)

  1. (Northeastern, US) A purse or handbag.
  2. (dated) A wallet for paper money.
  3. (figuratively) One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
    Synonyms:
    pocket
  4. A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
    • The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
    1. (Philippines, broadly) A romance novel published as a small paperback.

Forms of pocket-book

pluralpocket-books

Questions about pocket-book

What is pocket-book the alternative form of?
Pocket-book is the alternative form of pocketbook.

Words near pocket-book in the dictionary

  1. pocket vetos
  2. pocket watch
  3. pocket watched
  4. pocket watches
  5. pocket watching
  6. pocket-book
  7. pocket-books
  8. pocket-call
  9. pocket-called
  10. pocket-calling
  11. pocket-calls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pocket-book (page history and authors); pocketbook (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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