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Meaning of Passbook | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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. A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
  3. A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
    South-Africa, historical

Equivalents

Ελληνικά βιβλιάριο
日本語 通帳
한국어 통장

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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