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US
/ˈpɑkətˌbʊk/
]
[ UK /pˈɒkɪtbˌʊk/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒkɪtbˌʊk/ ]
NOUN
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your personal financial means
that car is too expensive for my pocketbook -
a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
she reached into her bag and found a comb - a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money
- pocket-sized paperback book
How To Use pocketbook In A Sentence
- We then played a game that I introduced to the group where we would have readings from my little pocketbook of famous quotations, and everyone had to guess who was the originator of the quotation.
- Voters care about pocketbook issues such as jobs and inflation.
- What he had not anticipated when he chose the slightly inebriated, seriously overweight woman attempting to hail a cab, was how attached she would be to her pocketbook.
- Piece by piece they were trying to clean the pocketbooks with paper towels.
- much too dear for my pocketbook
- Maybe it's because we see "ideas" (maybe "ideals") as more important than short term pocketbook issues. North Carolina Governor To Endorse Hillary
- The cement that holds together the various strands of the Bush administration is their pocketbooks and stock market portfolios.
- Voters don't all realize how much the results could affect their pocketbooks.
- It is a pocketbook which fits the hand perfectly.
- Wednesday, Pascoe had given him the job, so it had to be... He pulled over and took out his pocketbook to check the date. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD