Synonyms of the word pocketbook


POCKETBOOKBAG - BILLFOLD - CASE - CONTAINER - HANDBAG - MEANS - NOTECASE - PAPERBACK - PURSE - SOFTBACK - SUBSTANCE - WALLET

pocketbook

  • n. (US) A woman's purse.
  • n. (figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
  • n. (rare) A small book, especially one that can fit in a pocket; a paperback; also a pocket book.
  • n. (Britain) A notebook that is small enough to fit in a pocket.

bag

  • n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
  • n. (informal) A handbag.
  • n. A suitcase.
  • n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
  • n. One’s preference.
  • n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
  • n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
  • n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
  • n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
  • n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
  • n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
  • n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  • v. To put into a bag.
  • v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  • v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  • v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  • v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
  • v. To hang like an empty bag.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

billfold

  • n. A small, folding sleeve or case designed to hold paper currency, as well as credit cards, pictures, etc.

case

  • n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
  • n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
  • n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
  • n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
  • n. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
  • n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
  • n. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
  • n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
  • v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
  • n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
  • n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
  • n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
  • n. An enclosing frame or casing.
  • n. A suitcase.
  • n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be…
  • n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
  • n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally…
  • n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case)…
  • n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
  • n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid…
  • n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
  • n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
  • adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
  • v. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for…

container

  • n. Someone who contains; something that contains.
  • n. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
  • n. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
  • n. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
  • n. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

handbag

  • n. (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal…
  • n. (uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to…

means

  • n. plural of mean.
  • n. An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.
  • n. Resources; riches.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mean.

notecase

  • n. A wallet or billfold (for holding banknotes).

paperback

  • n. A book with flexible binding.
  • adj. (of a book) Having flexible binding.

purse

  • n. A small bag for carrying money.
  • n. (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items).
  • n. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
  • n. (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans…
  • v. (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
  • v. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
  • v. To put into a purse.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.

softback

  • n. A softcover or paperback book.

substance

  • n. Physical matter; material.
  • n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  • n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  • n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  • n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
  • n. (theology) Hypostasis.

wallet

  • n. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit…
  • n. (by extension, slang) A person's bank account or assets.
  • n. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
  • n. (archaic) A bag or pouch.
  • n. (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

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