English
passbook
Noun

passbook (plural passbooks)

  1. (banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
  2. (dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
    • 1878, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers (volume 26, page 254)
      Mr Campbell Swinston.—Supposing there were no stronger reason than that against the continuance of grocers' licences, could not that evil be very easily put an end to by making a single false entry in the passbook the ground for forfeiting the grocer's certificate?
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