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ˈpass-book
[app. = book passing to and fro between bank (or tradesman) and customer.]
1. The account-book supplied by a bank to a person having a current or deposit account, in which entries are made of all sums deposited and drawn, so that the customer may at any time see what is his balance at the bank: = bank-book b.
Formerly app. called passage-book.
1828J. W. Gilbart Banking (ed. 2) §3 The person is supplied..with..A cash-book, called in some houses a Pass-book. 1847Minutes Crt. Direct. Bank Eng. 6 May, Resolved..That the following notice be inserted in the Pass Books. [Similar entry of 11 Jan. 1827 had Bank Books.] 1855Ann. Reg. 366 He was credited with the dividends in his pass-book. 1866Crump Banking i. 35 A banker's pass-book affords a complete history of the expenditure for the year. a1901Besant Five Years' Tryst (1902) 91 Your pass-book..shall be made up to-day, and you shall have the book to-morrow morning, when you can draw your balance. 1902G. Meredith Let. ? 20 Apr. (1970) III. 1441, I do not see in my pass-book the Swedish {pstlg}15. 1916Banking Publicity Oct. 1/1 It is not more necessary for the banker to advertise who would have men and women leave their money with nothing more than a passbook to carry home in place of it? 1922Joyce Ulysses 707 A bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903. Ibid. 710 The endowment policy, the bank passbook, the certificate of the possession of scrip. 1949G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions iii. 30 What money I need appears to my credit in my bank passbook as cash or dividends on the few investments my stockbroker has advised. 1954R. Gittings John Keats: Living Year v. 49 A small red leather wallet with a tuck-in flap, rather like a bank pass⁓book. 1977Time 28 Feb. 38/1 If the salesman had $2,000 or more in a savings account, he could borrow on his passbook and pay 1% more in interest on his loan than he received in interest on his savings.
2. A book in which a merchant or trader makes an entry of goods sold on credit to a customer, for the information of the latter.
1833Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. II. 321/1 [Are there] no unheard-of overcharges in those pass-books I see flying about like evil spirits? 1839Bouvier Law Dict. U.S. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 1108 The ‘pass-books’ employed backwards and forwards between bakers, butchers, and the like domestic traders, and their customers. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 34/1 US passbook—BE credit sales book, roundsman's book.
3. S. Afr. = pass n.2 8 f.
Usu. written as two words without hyphen.
1961T. Matshikiza Chocolates for my Wife 88 The sergeant..thumbed querulously through each ninety-six paged pass book. 1963K. Mackenzie Dragon to Kill xvi. 181 The police came to know about the evidence he could give in this case when they arrested him again, on a charge involving forged pass books. 1971Post (Golden City, S. Afr.) 21 Mar. 7 Bishop Alpheus Zulu, who was arrested a week ago for not carrying his pass book. 1972P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy (1973) vi. 74 People were advised..to destroy the pass books which the law required them to carry. 1973Times 21 Sept. 15/5 Sizwe appropriates the dead man's name and pass book. |