pocketbook issue

1. 1.

   an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources

   Synonymsbread-and-butter issue

   Broaderissue

Questions about pocketbook issue

What does pocketbook issue mean?

pocketbook issue means "an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources".

What is another word for pocketbook issue?

Close synonyms include bread-and-butter issue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pocketbook issue a common word?

pocketbook issue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.