passbookn.
/ˈpɑːsbʊk/, /ˈpasbʊk/, U.S. /ˈpæsˌbʊk/ 1. An account book supplied by a bank or building society to a person having an account with it, in which entries are made of all sums deposited or withdrawn.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > bank book or savings book
bankbook1714
passage-book1816
savings book1826
passbook1828
post-office savings bank book1936
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account > passbook or savings book
bankbook1714
bankers' book1764
passage-book1816
savings book1826
passbook1828
post-office savings bank book1936
1828 J. W. Gilbart Banking (ed. 2) §3 The person is supplied..with..A cash-book, called in some houses a Pass-book.
1856 Ann. Reg. 1855 ii. Law Cases 366/1 He was credited with the dividends in his pass-book.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 35 A banker's pass-book affords a complete history of the expenditure for the year.
a1901 W. Besant 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.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 675 A bank passbook issued by the Ulster Bank, College Green branch showing statement of a/c for halfyear ending 31 December 1903.
1985 B. Neil As we Forgive xi. 192 Eric had taken all her possessions with him, including her pass-book for her Building Society savings.
2. A book in which a trader makes an entry of goods sold on credit, for the information of customers.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book
journal1540
bankers' book1585
shop book?1594
waste-book1613
cash-book1622
counter-book1622
pay-book1622
copybook1660
audit-booka1680
bankbook1682
transfer-book1694
malt-book1710
pay list1757
petty cash book1827
passbook1833
stock book1835
guard book1839
tommy book1841
bought-book1849
in-clearing book1872
out-clearing book1882
out-book1884
trial-book1890
1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 9 Nov. 321/1 [Are there] no unheard-of overcharges in those pass-books I see flying about like evil spirits?
1839 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. II. 230/2 Pass-book, a book used by merchants with their customers, in which an entry of goods sold and delivered to a customer is made.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xliv. 1108 The ‘pass-books’ employed backwards and forwards between bakers, butchers, and the like domestic traders, and their customers.
1923 Jrnl. Social Forces 1 376/1 Provisions and other articles of consumption were secured through the use of a pass-book at the village store.
1990 Indian Express (Madras) 31 Jan. 12/6 Accordingly in the passbook scheme, blanket passbook be issued to this sector as is being given to the textile garment sector, to provide adequate flexibility to the exporters.
3. In South Africa: an identity document formerly issued to black Africans, which restricted movement and residence in certain areas and had to be produced on demand; cf. reference book n. 2. Cf. pass n.4 7e. Now historical.Usually written as two words without a hyphen. The documents were issued between 1952 and 1986.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > to go or come > in South Africa
pass1828
passbook1956
1912 Evening Post (Frederick, Maryland) 30 Jan. 6/5 The British authorities have kept them [sc. members of the Senussi Brotherhood] under surveillance, compelling them to carry a passbook, which they must get signed..if they wish to stay in a British station [in Nigeria].]
1956 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 Dec. 9/6 Passbooks are carried by all African men in South Africa..but hitherto African women have not carried passbooks.
1961 T. Matshikiza Chocolates for my Wife 88 The sergeant..thumbed querulously through each ninety-six paged pass book.
1972 P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy (1973) vi. 74 People were advised..to destroy the pass books which the law required them to carry.
1990 L. Ngcobo And they didn't Die xii. 199 In no time at all she had..had her photograph taken and affixed the prints of all her fingers on the pages of the pass-book.
1999 P. Jooste Frieda & Min 185 On her way walking home from our house to Alex Township there were people burning passbooks on a big bonfire at one of the bus stations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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