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单词 pocketbook
释义 pocketbook
\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. usually pocket book : a small book that can be carried in the pocket; especially : a paperback sold cheaply to reach a mass market
 < the popular novelist would be satisfied with his income from serials and scenarios and pocket books — Randall Jarrell >
2.
 a. : a pocket notebook
  < made a series of notes in his pocketbook — Ngaio Marsh >
 b.
  (1) : a pocket-size flat or folding container for money and personal papers : wallet
  (2) : purse
 c. : handbag 2
  < held pocketbooks in their laps; one of the pocketbooks was black, the other of some kind of alligator skin — Millen Brand >
3.
 a. : financial resources : income
  < apartment-house or cottage rentals to meet the pocketbooks of the white-collar workers — Harper's >
 b. : economic interests
  < have no intention of voting against their own pocketbooks or against the party of their forebears — Elmo Roper & Louis Harris >
4. also pocketbook clam \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷-\ : a freshwater mussel (Lampsilis ventricosus) of the upper Mississippi drainage area that yields mother-of-pearl and is used in button making
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