playbook

noun

play·​book ˈplā-ˌbu̇k 

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

Examples of playbook in a Sentence

He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.

Recent Examples on the Web

Bessent’s bond market intervention appeared to take a page out of the Fed’s crisis playbook by creating a backstop to ease market jitters. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

To see what structural resilience can look like in 2026, American executives should look beyond the conventional playbook. — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

Matt Wansley, a law professor at Cardozo focusing on AI and automated driving regulation, says being cryptic about how autonomous its vehicles actually are is part of Tesla’s usual playbook. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026

A number of offensive minds — Johnson, Zac (and Press) Taylor, Doyle, Liam Coen, Brady, Drew Petzing and others — are making playbooks and game plans easier to digest. — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1511, in the meaning defined at sense 1