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pocketbook

/pok-it-book/US // ˈpɒk ɪtˌbʊk //UK // (ˈpɒkɪtˌbʊk) //

口袋书,口袋书包,零用钱簿,袖珍本

Related Words

handbag手提包,手袋,手提袋,手包wallet钱包,皮夹,银包,皮夹子purse钱包,钱袋,钱夹,囊括了pouch小袋,袋装,袋子,小袋装suitcase行李箱,手提箱,箱子,箱子里的东西hide隐藏,隐藏起来,隐蔽leather皮革类,皮革业,皮革业的发展,皮革业者clutch离合器,离合,攥紧,攥住frame框架,框框,框,帧bag袋子,袋,包包,包reticule网状物,网状结构,网状图,网膜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : handbag.
    • : a person's financial resources or means: The price was out of reach of his pocketbook.
    • : Also pock·et book . a book, usually paperback, that is small enough to carry in one's coat pocket.
    • : British. a notebook for carrying in one's pocket. a wallet or billfold.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounaccessory for carrying personal items
Synonyms
handbag手提包,手袋,手提袋,手包pouch小袋,袋装,袋子,小袋装purse钱包,钱袋,钱夹,囊括了suitcase行李箱,手提箱,箱子,箱子里的东西wallet钱包,皮夹,银包,皮夹子bag袋子,袋,包包,包clutch离合器,离合,攥紧,攥住frame框架,框框,框,帧hide隐藏,隐藏起来,隐蔽leather皮革类,皮革业,皮革业的发展,皮革业者reticule网状物,网状结构,网状图,网膜

Examples

  • Finding a single cleaner that does it all reduces waste and is healthier for your pocketbook.

  • They argue the drug — with a list price of $56,000 a year per patient — offers false hope while threatening Medicare’s financial health and patients’ pocketbooks.

  • Many of those critiques hold water, but it remains true that these men, and a firm such as Brown Brothers, saw a responsibility to address the common good and not just their own pocketbooks.

  • It might hurt my pocketbook and our company’s ledger, but it’s only a bit of wounded pride.

  • Ultimately I think one of the things it behooves advertisers to remember is they’re the ones that vote with their pocketbook.

  • Seemingly possessed by demons, she would slip objects from the homes of rich people they visited into her pocketbook.

  • Not many doctors are likely to reach for the pocketbook on that scale without quite a bit of deliberation.

  • Because they're not limited by their checkbook or pocketbook, they can buy a whole swath of products.

  • Republicans face increasing difficulty with the Hispanic vote for pocketbook reasons.

  • Pocketbook issues make Hispanics natural Democrats, not natural Republicans.

  • He tore out the editorial and put it away carefully in his pocketbook as Montgomery was called.

  • Then he woke her up, and I took out a pocketbook and said: "Here is what you asked me for this morning, my dear cousin."

  • "Well, I declare," muttered the Deacon, as he fished a greenback out of a leather pocketbook fastened with a long strap.

  • "I can," put in Frank, immediately producing his pocketbook.

  • "Pretty well filled, too," he added, opening the pocketbook and looking into it.

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