Passbook

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.
   dated
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

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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?”

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