Definitions for pocketbook

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pocketbook poc·ket·book

Spelling: [pok-it-boo k]

IPA: /ˈpɒk ɪtˌbʊk/

Pocketbook is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in pocketbook (bcekkooopt).

Definitions for pocketbook

noun

1. a woman's purse or handbag.
2. a person's financial resources or means:
3. Also, pocket book. a book, usually paperback, that is small enough to carry in one's coat pocket.
4. British. a notebook for carrying in one's pocket. a wallet or billfold.

Origin of pocketbook

First recorded in 1610-20; pocket + book

Examples for pocketbook

Then he went deeper into his pocketbook and took out a small photograph.

I don't remember how it came about or how the pocketbook and the pencil came into my hands.

Not many doctors are likely to reach for the pocketbook on that scale without quite a bit of deliberation.

Because they're not limited by their checkbook or pocketbook, they can buy a whole swath of products.

He took out the pocketbook once more and from it extracted a two-dollar bill.

Seemingly possessed by demons, she would slip objects from the homes of rich people they visited into her pocketbook.

pocketbook issues make Hispanics natural Democrats, not natural Republicans.

He delved for the pocketbook, opened it—and found no certificate therein.

Republicans face increasing difficulty with the Hispanic vote for pocketbook reasons.

She had seen the little roll of bills in her mother's pocketbook.