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  • noun Plural form of passbook.

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Examples

  • An applicant may be asked to bring in passbooks from his bank or a record of the last six months’ transactions.

    Mexican citizen traveling to US 2004

  • 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.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • 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).

    Liz Mandarano: Divine Divorce Liz Mandarano 2011

  • Beneath that were the passbooks to his many accounts.

    Never Trust A Thief Foster Trecost 2011

  • 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).

    Liz Mandarano: Divine Divorce Liz Mandarano 2011

  • 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?

    Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice 2010

  • You could beef up your arrest numbers by rounding up a couple of natives who slipped into town without their passbooks.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • You could beef up your arrest numbers by rounding up a couple of natives who slipped into town without their passbooks.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • 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?

    Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice 2010

  • It elicits memories of South Africa under apartheid, when blacks were forced to carry passbooks or otherwise risk incarceration.

    The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Boycotting Arizona 2010

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