playbook
/ˈpleɪ.bʊk/
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Northern Ireland/ˈplebʉk/
playbook noun: a book containing the text of a play or plays.
Noun
playbook (plural playbooks)
- A book containing the text of a play or plays.
- Near-synonym: play
- Synonyms:
- play
- A book of games and amusements for children.
- Near-synonym: gamebook
- Synonyms:
- gamebook
- A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).
- A book or (especially) any set of commonly employed tactics, strategies, and tips.
- Near-synonyms: cookbook, run book
- A Look at Satan's "Playbook"1994, Charles R. Wood, Sermon Outlines on Prayer, page 39
playbook meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
playbook in Hindi
- प्लेबुक, प्ले बुक
playbook in Marathi
- प्लेबुक, नाटकपुस्तिका
playbook in Urdu
- پلے بک, پلی بک
playbook in Bengali
- প্লেবুক
More languagesFewer languages
- playbook in Telugu
- ప్లేబుక్, ప్లే బుక్
- playbook in Malayalam
- പ്ലേബുക്ക്, പ്ലേ ബുക്ക്, പ്ലെയ്ബുക്ക്
- playbook in Kannada
- ಪ್ಲೇಬುಕ್, ಪ್ಲೇ ಬುಕ್
- playbook in Punjabi
- ਪਲੇਬੁੱਕ, ਪਲੇ ਬੁੱਕ, ਪਲੇ-ਬੁੱਕ
- playbook in Gujarati
- પ્લેબુક, પ્લે બુક
- playbook in Odia
- ପ୍ଲେବୁକ୍, ପ୍ଲେ ବୁକ୍
- playbook in Nepali
- प्लेबुक, प्ले बुक, प्लेबुक्
Examples of playbook in a sentence
- It’s straight out of Danton’s playbook on boldness – de l’audace, et encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.2017 March 17, Martin Kettle, “We used to think Theresa May was a safe pair of hands. We can no longer say that”, in The Guardian:
- It’s a playbook the company perfected with House of Cards, which was a tremendous gamble for the business of television when Netflix launched the show in 2013.2017 March 21, Ed Finn, “The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix”, in Slate:
- “No one has a playbook for this,” said Dan Levin, who runs a small company outside Chicago, Cain Millwork, which makes furniture and wall paneling.2020 March 5, Mike Isaac, David Yaffe-Bellany, Karen Weise, “Workplace vs. Coronavirus: ‘No One Has a Playbook for This’”, in New York...
- Security administrators can create a series of runbooks and playbooks that can be used in response to a wide range of incident response activities.2021, Arthur Conklin, Greg White, Chuck Cothren, Roger L. Davis, Dwayne Williams, Principles of Computer Security, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page...
Synonyms of playbook
Forms of playbook
| plural | playbooks |
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Origin of playbook
From play + book.
Words formed from playbook
Phrases with playbook
Questions about playbook
- What does playbook mean?
- Playbook means a book containing the text of a play or plays.
- What is playbook in Hindi?
- Playbook in Hindi is प्लेबुक, प्ले बुक. See Playbook meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use playbook in a sentence?
- It’s straight out of Danton’s playbook on boldness – de l’audace, et encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.
- What part of speech is playbook?
- Playbook is a noun.
- How do you pronounce playbook?
- Playbook is pronounced /ˈpleɪ.bʊk/.
- What is the plural of playbook?
- The plural of playbook is playbooks.
Words near playbook in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: playbook (page history and authors); playbook (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playbook (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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