Passbook

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks wordnet
  3. 3
    A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases. dated

    "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?"

  4. 4
    A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas. South-Africa, historical

Etymology

From pass + book.

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