wallet

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We'd love to go abroad, but as the wallet is a bit tighter and overseas flights really aren't all that green, we were excited to hear about a new eco resort being built in the US this February in Monterey, California.

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  1. noun A flat pocket-sized folding case, usually made of leather, for holding paper money, cards, or photographs; a billfold.

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  • The two condoms in his wallet were all but burning a hole in his back pocket. —  Chapter 1
  • Whatever money had been contained in his wallet was also taken, although a twenty-thousand-dollar bank draft —not negotiable—was not stolen. —  Murder Can Be Fun
  • Underneath the wallet was a shoe box half-full of six-by-four prints. —  The Enemy by Lee Child
  • If you don't want to spend your time giving this company your money, you can activate their automatic Bid Butler, as lightening your wallet is a task best left to machines (a fundamental law of the internet first proven by Google). —  The Register
  • I was mostly interested in recovering my password wallet, a few pictures and videos that I'd saved, and a few miscellaneous documents. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English walet, knapsack, possibly from Old North French *walet, roll, knapsack; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English walet, walette, possibly a transposition or corruption of watel, a bag: see wattle. For a similar transposition, cf. neeld for needle.
 

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/ˈwɑlɛt/
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