Synonyms of pocket book

pocketbook 1 of 2

noun (1)

ˈpä-kət-ˌbu̇k 

as in purse

a container for carrying money and small personal items

she pulled some lip balm out of her pocketbook

Synonyms & Similar Words

• purse
• wallet
• bag
• handbag
• billfold
• vanity
• pouch
• clutch
• minaudière
• compact
• clutch bag
• sack
• shoulder bag
• poke

pocket book

2 of 2

noun (2)

as in trade book

Related Words

• trade book
• trade edition
• pocket edition
• paperback
• hardcover
• hardback
• paperbound
• softcover
• tome
• paper
• folio
• catalogue
• manual
• book
• handbook
• guidebook
• quarto
• catalog
• picture book
• volume
• text
• softback
• how-to
• dictionary
• encyclopedia
• textbook
• treatise
• monograph
• cyclopedia
• primer
• cyclopaedia
• pulp
• album
• novel
• anthology
• novelette
• tract
• chapbook
• almanac
• casebook
• omnibus

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pocket book

Noun

Month-over-month changes in electric costs typically register at less than a cent, but that doesn’t mean consumers won’t feel it in their pocketbooks. —Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025

Tired of the team’s cost-conscious ways, vocal fans desperately hoped for a new ownership group with deep pocketbooks and a desire to win to come to their rescue. —Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025

To many progressives, his style of politics—principled, pocketbook-focused, and online—was an electrifying answer for a moribund party. —Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025

The overall luxury slowdown has been spurned, in part, by Chinese consumers that have been reluctant to open up their pocketbooks amid economic stressors and other factors. —Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 July 2025