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- n. Plural form of passbook.
Examples
“An applicant may be asked to bring in passbooks from his bank or a record of the last six months’ transactions.”
“It led to "passbooks", introduced to restrict black people's movements beyond those that were necessary to the economy, and separate beaches, buses, hospitals, schools, universities and lavatories for blacks, whites, mixed-race "coloureds" and Indians.”
“Also, stores such as Lululemon offer weekly free community classes (www.lululemon.com) and inexpensive passbooks exist that gain annual access to hundreds of free yoga classes in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. (www.health-fitness.org).”
“Beneath that were the passbooks to his many accounts.”
“It elicits memories of South Africa under apartheid, when blacks were forced to carry passbooks or otherwise risk incarceration.”
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“Do we really want a society like Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, where all people are required to carry passbooks with documentation of their status?”
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“You could beef up your arrest numbers by rounding up a couple of natives who slipped into town without their passbooks.”
“They came up with a system of passbooks and account numbers to record earnings.”
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“ She carefully peruses Mr. R's bank statements and savings passbooks.”
“In boxes up on the shelf, in envelopes in the back of the drawer, in accounts accessible only by presenting stiff-covered passbooks.”
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