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shopbook

shopbook noun: a book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.

Noun

shopbook (plural shopbooks)

  1. (dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
    • one unpractised in figures to cast up a shopbook1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC

Forms of shopbook

pluralshopbooks

Origin of shopbook

From shop + book.

Questions about shopbook

What does shopbook mean?
Shopbook means a book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
What part of speech is shopbook?
Shopbook is a noun.
What is the plural of shopbook?
The plural of shopbook is shopbooks.

Words near shopbook in the dictionary

  1. shopaholism
  2. shopathon
  3. shopathons
  4. shopboard
  5. shopboards
  6. shopbook
  7. shopbooks
  8. shopbot
  9. shopbots
  10. shopbought
  11. shopboy

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