RULE BOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rule book mean? 

• RULE BOOK (noun)
  The noun RULE BOOK has 1 sense:

1. a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made

  Familiarity information: RULE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RULE BOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

book; rule book

Context example:

they run things by the book around here

Hypernyms ("rule book" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (parts of "rule book"):

prescript; rule (prescribed guide for conduct or action)

rule (directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted)

 Context examples 

“Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised considering that perovskites have re-written the rule book on performance in the presence of defects and disorder.”

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)