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Definition of playbook
1 : one or more plays in book form
2 : a notebook containing diagrammed football plays
3 : a stock of usual tactics or methods straight from his opponent's political playbook
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Examples of playbook in a Sentence
He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
Recent Examples of playbook from the Web
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Problems ranged from injuries to learning the playbook to off-field behavior to effort and attitude.
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In the July/August cover story of The Atlantic, Mark Bowden outlines a playbook for dealing with North Korea, but warns that none of the options are pretty.
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Tough Guy In the fall of 2014, as more and more Cosby accusers surfaced, the Marty Singer playbook was on full display.
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If Whole Foods follows the Bezos playbook, shoppers can expect prices to fall, and investors will expect revenue to rise.
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Both approaches are right out of Cuba’s totalitarian playbook.
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Botin, better known for accumulating capital and emphasizing internal growth than doing deals, took a page from her late father’s playbook.
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After two decades of sticking largely to the same ineffective playbook, the course is unlikely to change without a drastic shift in policy from an outside nation.
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Some come out of the psychedelic playbook: Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow, Cream’s Disraeli Gears, Love’s Forever Changes,
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First Known Use of playbook
1511
PLAYBOOK Defined for English Language Learners
playbook
play
noun
Definition of playbook for English Language Learners
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American football : a book that contains descriptions of the different offensive and defensive plays that are used by a team
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