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单词 passbook
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passbook

/ˈpɑːsbʊk /
noun
1A book issued by a bank or building society to an account holder, recording sums deposited and withdrawn.Just like a time deposit versus a passbook savings account, there's a trade off: cost-effectiveness versus accessibility....
  • If you find an old passbook for a building society no longer on the high street, you can look up where the money has gone on the Association's website here.
  • It's like a time-deposit bank account versus a passbook savings account.
2 historical (In South Africa under apartheid) a black person’s pass.The notorious passbooks blacks were required to carry, for instance, bore the carrier's photographic portrait....
  • According to the Pass Law, government officials possessed the power to expel the worker from the area by adverse endorsement in the passbook.
  • Here is a photograph of a pass book that the average black South African would be required to carry with them during the apartheid period in South Africa.
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