bluebook
Britishnoun
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(in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee
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informal a register of well-known people
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(in Canada) an annual statement of government accounts
Example Sentences
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The look she gave me made it plain that in her bluebook the value of a ’41 model Gilmore Henry was lower than net income after taxes.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020
The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t issued any guidance on the alimony tax change, but some answers could come in the bluebook, Congress’s official handbook explaining the law, expected to be released this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2018
Supposedly he had gone on writing in his bluebook after the order to stop.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry."
From Time Magazine Archive
The result of the tabulation appeared in 1896, in a bluebook of 1367 folio pages, containing tables based upon the experience of nearly four and a half million years of life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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