(n.) A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Women did not vote with their ladyparts, they voted with their pocketbooks like they always do".
(2) To cover themselves, they wrote a log of the incident from their pocketbook notes, and very soon afterwards emailed it up through the chain of command at the Metropolitan police to a sergeant, an inspector and – it is understood – even higher up the ranks.
(3) But large-scale studies of class mobility show that the forces that move people out of poverty are more diffuse than can fit in any pocketbook.
(4) Nurses have always been regarded as a major drain on the hospital's pocketbook, rather than as a revenue-generating resource.
(5) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(6) My dad had a wonderful collection of soft-cover pocketbooks that were dramatically illustrated with film noir-looking artwork on the covers.
(7) These are critical pocketbook issues for millions of American families, and thus they are critical issues for the health and competitiveness of the American economy.” A question from Becky Quick, one of the debate’s three moderators, for Texas senator Ted Cruz provided the night’s only discussion of either issue.
(8) People are worried about Europe, the fiscal cliff, the election, no one wants to open their pocketbooks," said Faucher.
(9) Those who have had contact with the officers say that, in the immediate aftermath of the altercation at the gates of Downing Street, both officers made notes of what they say happened in their pocketbooks.
(10) Obama has been highlighting his energy agenda this week in Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and later Thursday in battleground Ohio, a trip that reflects the degree to which high gas prices have begun hitting consumers in their pocketbooks.
(11) There was a wonderful opportunity squandered to highlight what this service would mean for artists who are struggling and to make a plea to people’s hearts and pocketbooks to pay a little more for this service that was going to pay these artists a more reasonable streaming rate.
(12) Since Air Force fliers may "quit" only at some personal cost to pride or pocketbook, they may develop a fear of flying.
(13) There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda … that want to get into your pocketbooks,” Palmer was quoted as saying in an appearance at an industry forum in St Louis.
(14) The ads are playing nationwide in states that elected a president who promised them change but who now, the Kochs argue, is threatening their livelihoods and their pocketbooks.
Purse
Definition:
(n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
(n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
(n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
(n.) A specific sum of money
(n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
(n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
(v. t.) To put into a purse.
(v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
(v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(2) Postoperative urodynamic studies have shown maximum capacity of 750 ml and the area of continence to be at the ileocecal valve where the purse-string sutures are placed.
(3) The technique involves the use of an extra-long sheath for filter placement and the application of a purse-string suture at the venipuncture site to facilitate hemostasis.
(4) In the interview, he similarly suggested he was willing to give the president leeway within Congress’ rights to reject nominees and control the White House’s purse.
(5) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.
(6) Arsenal at Stoke has become one of the set pieces of Premier League football, a fixture almost certain to leave Wenger with pursed lips even if Tony Pulis and his rugby tactics have been replaced by Mark "over-physical, moi?"
(7) Subjects were placed alone in a room where purposeful oral activity such as eating, talking and smoking was not permitted, while activity such as pursing the lips sucking on cheeks, grimaces etc was measured by a specially designed electromyometer.
(8) They told Gutiérrez to gather what belonged to her - her clothes, her purse, her little boy - and come with them.
(9) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(10) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(11) There were three distinct groups of operative techniques: (1) the purse-string technique in 40 patellectomies; (2) the vastus medialis technique in 24 patellectomies; (3) other techniques in 49 patellectomies.
(12) Unfortunately this will perpetuate the myth that loosening central bank purse strings is the answer, when that acts less like a bazooka and more like a popgun.
(13) For those who didn't know: academics, funded mostly by the public purse, pay for the production and dissemination of papers; but for historical reasons, these are published by private organisations that charge around $30 (£18.50) per paper, keeping out any reader who doesn't have access through their institution.
(14) There may be technical difficulties in the use of recommended clamp for the insertion of the purse-string suture during the construction of an end-to-end staple anastomosis.
(15) City analysts said Prudential's aim to tap investors in the coming two months follows huge demands on the purse strings of investors who have been asked to back fundraisings by London-listed companies worth almost £60bn over two years.
(16) This work shows our personal technique for performing esophagoenterostomy, especially in the thoracic area, using the new CEEA stapler (Autosuture) without esophageal purse-string sutures.
(17) In the end, said Green, “the essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trademarks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense cleanup cost on the public purse.
(18) That has the advantage for the Conservatives of taking the burden of the hungry off the public purse, shrinking the state and preparing the poor for a harsher labour market in the process.
(19) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
(20) "It is vital that local health bodies and local councils look carefully at the guidance as it clearly sets out how, in the long run, investing in support for adults with autism will save money to the public purse," the National Autistic Society stresses.