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Handbook vs Pocketbook - What's the difference?

handbook | pocketbook |

As nouns the difference between handbook and pocketbook

is that handbook is a topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, disregarding the size of it while pocketbook is a woman's purse.

handbook

English

Noun

(wikipedia handbook) (en noun)
  • A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, disregarding the size of it.

    • Coordinate terms

    * manual

    pocketbook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A woman's purse.
  • (figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
  • (rare) A small book, especially one that can fit in a pocket; a paperback; also a pocket book.
    • ''The publishers brought out small format pocketbook s of the whole of their nature series'.
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  • (British) A notebook that is small enough to fit in a pocket.
  • :* The police officer recorded all the salient information in his pocketbook at the time of the incident .
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