pocketbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: 1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.
Compound parts: pocket
book
Inflected forms:
form: pocketbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pocket-book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pocket book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A purse or handbag.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A wallet for paper money.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
pos: noun
examples: The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…]
By 1482 the printing capital of the world was Venice, and the busiest printer there was a man called Aldus Manutius who used to have a sign outside his shop saying 'If you would speak to Aldus, hurry — time presses'. He had good reason. No single printer did more to spread the printed word than he. Aldus knew that his market, and the market of all printers, lay not in the production of expensive, commissioned editions of the Bible or the Psalms, but in an inexpensive format that could easily be carried in a man's saddlebag wherever he went. So Aldus made his books small, and cheap. The Aldine Editions, as his new format was called, were the world's first pocket books, and they sold faster than he could produce them. Nearly half his workers were Greeks, exiles or refugees from the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. So it was that with the help of his translator-craftsmen, Aldus began the task of translating the Greek classics. When he died, in 1515, no major known Greek authors remained to be translated. Whatever happened in the Greek world, Aldus had ensured that the classical authors would not once again be lost to the West, as they had after the fall of Rome.
The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD. The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.
"I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."
Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye.
gloss: A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
broadly
Related words: pocketable
pocket-sized
vade mecum
Derived words: champagne taste on a beer pocketbook
pocketbook issue
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: джобна книжка
roman: džobna knižka
lang: Bulgarian
word: книга малък формат
roman: kniga malǎk format
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 袖珍本
roman: xiùzhēnběn
lang: Dutch
word: pocketboek
lang: Esperanto
word: poŝlibro
lang: Finnish
word: taskukirja
lang: Finnish
word: pokkari
lang: French
word: livre de poche
lang: French
word: pocket
lang: German
word: Taschenbuch
lang: Greek
word: βιβλίο τσέπης
roman: vivlío tsépis
lang: Hungarian
word: zsebkönyv
lang: Hungarian
word: kiskönyv
lang: Italian
word: tascabile
lang: Italian
word: libro tascabile
lang: Italian
word: pocket-book
lang: Japanese
word: 袖珍本
roman: shūchinbon
lang: Japanese
word: 小型版
roman: kogataban
lang: Korean
word: 수진본
roman: sujinbon
lang: Korean
word: 소형판
roman: sohyeongpan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pocketbok
lang: Polish
word: wydanie kieszonkowe
lang: Russian
word: кни́га небольшо́го форма́та
roman: kníga nebolʹšóvo formáta
lang: Russian
word: карма́нная кни́га
roman: karmánnaja kníga
lang: Russian
word: по́кет
roman: póket
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leabhar-pòcaid
lang: Swedish
word: pocketbok
lang: Swedish
word: pocket
lang: Turkish
word: cep kitabı
lang: Hungarian
word: notesz
lang: Polish
word: notes
lang: Polish
word: notatnik
lang: Polish
word: brulion