bluebook

British  

noun

1. (in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee

2. informal a register of well-known people

3. (in Canada) an annual statement of government accounts

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Example Sentences

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

"The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry."

From Time Magazine Archive

Supposedly he had gone on writing in his bluebook after the order to stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

If e’er from love or hate you try To trace a Welshman’s pedigree, There is a book—for you ’tis meant, A bluebook of high Parliament.

From Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund O.