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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 beach
  2. pocket beaches
  3. pocket bike
  4. pocket bikes
  5. pocket billiards
  6. pocket book
  7. pocket books
  8. pocket borough
  9. pocket boroughs
  10. pocket bra
  11. pocket bras

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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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