pocketbook

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Equally impressive on the pocketbook is an almost no-bake strawberry cheesecake.

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  1. noun A purse; a handbag.
  2. noun A pocket-sized folder or case used to hold money and papers; a billfold.
  3. noun Financial resources; money supply: prices to fit your pocketbook.

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  • Van Hollen's bill turns the pocketbook issue on its head by recycling revenue from polluters back to everyone else. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • How Blackwell, who opposes both abortion and the legal expansions of gambling, reconciles his conscience and pocketbook is a talent known only to life-long politicians. —  RedState
  • That's one heck of a dent in the pocketbook, at least for mine that is. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Pressure works, and hitting corporations in the pocketbook is the loudest call for response.
  • "People are being hit in the pocketbook, and nothing motivates voters more than being uncomfortable economically," Simmons said. —  Sibby Online
 

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