Definition of Bankbook

1. Noun. A record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks.

Exact synonyms: Passbook
Generic synonyms: Record

Definition of Bankbook

1. Noun. passbook, chequebook ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) wealth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bankbook

1. a depositor's book [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bankbook

bank shot
bank statement
bank statements
bank swallow
bank transfer
bank transfers
bank up
bank vault
bank vole
bank voles
bank withdrawal
bankabilities
bankability
bankable
bankbook (current term)
bankbooks
bankcard
bankcards
banke
banked
banker
banker's acceptance
banker's acceptances
banker's bill
banker's check
banker's dozen
banker's draft
banker's drafts
banker's draught

Literary usage of Bankbook

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1911)
"The Mere Possession by a Daughter of her mother's bankbook after the death of the ... Sometime in the year 1906 deceased took her bankbook to complainant, ..."

2. Little Stories of Progress by Frank Andrews Fall (1914)
"He ran home, seized his bankbook and started to rush back to the bank. His wife caught him by the ... Why do you run away with our bankbook? " she repeated. ..."

3. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"... as an executed gift.6 But to constitute a gift causa mortis of a deposit in bank by delivery of the bankbook there must be, it has been held, ..."

4. Patriotic Orations by Charles Henry Fowler (1910)
"... "Mr. Jones, it is all right," put the check in the bankbook, pushed the bankbook into the pigeonhole, reached out for Mr. Jones's papers, saying, ..."

5. Gano's Commercial Law by Darwin Curtis Gano (1921)
"A man deposited his own money in a savings bank in his wife's name, and never delivered the bankbook to her. There was no evidence that the wife ever saw ..."

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