different between bookwork vs passbook

English

Etymology

book +? work

Noun

bookwork (uncountable)

1. Accounting work; book keeping.
2. The art and science of formatting books.
3. Work done with the aid of textbooks.
4. (chiefly University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.

Anagrams

• workbook

English

Etymology

pass +? book

Noun

passbook (plural passbooks)

1. (banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
2. (dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
   • 1878, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers (volume 26, page 254)

     Mr Campbell Swinston.—Supposing there were no stronger reason than that against the continuance of grocers' licences, could not that evil be very easily put an end to by making a single false entry in the passbook the ground for forfeiting the grocer's certificate?

3. (South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.

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Further reading

• passbook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia