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- noun Plural form of
pocketbook .
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Examples
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What really disturbs me about Samuelson's essay is the implication that we vote for our short-term pocketbooks rather than what is best for society at large (and, therefore, ultimately ourselves) in the long term.
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Voters are much more focused on economic issues this year, and any attempt to divert them away from their pocketbooks will be a disaster for the GOP.
Andy Ostroy: Will Prop 8 and Gay Marriage Derail the GOP This November? 2010
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Voters are much more focused on economic issues this year, and any attempt to divert them away from their pocketbooks will be a disaster for the GOP.
Andy Ostroy: Will Prop 8 and Gay Marriage Derail the GOP This November? 2010
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Voters are much more focused on economic issues this year, and any attempt to divert them away from their pocketbooks will be a disaster for the GOP, even if it's gay marriage -- the Republicans 'crack.
Andy Ostroy: Will Prop 8 and Gay Marriage Derail the GOP This November? 2010
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Hit them in their pocketbooks, that is the best way to influence companies.
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Careers that enrich our lives and our pocketbooks are a good fit because they fit nicely within the larger context of our lives.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Careers that enrich our lives and our pocketbooks are a good fit because they fit nicely within the larger context of our lives.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Like our current crop of war profiteers, who ripped off your 'pocketbooks'.
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Wow, 100’s of thousands of first timers in the midst of a recession endorsing Senator Obama with their pocketbooks is a fantastic achievment for our candidate.
Obama Raises More Than $40 Million in March - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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according to the 2007 NBDB readership survey, pinoys would vastly prefer to read tagalog over english, and the enthusiasm for reading romance novels or "pocketbooks" is still holding strong. i wrote down my thoughts on this in the latest ROD column for Manila Bulletin, but uh... doesn't seem like my thing made the online edition. maybe i'll post it on the ROD blog sometime...
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