handbook
noun
hand·book
ˈhan(d)-ˌbu̇k 
1
a
: a book capable of being conveniently carried as a ready reference : manual
b
: a concise reference book covering a particular subject
2
a
: a bookmaker's book of bets
b
: a place where bookmaking is carried on
Examples of handbook in a Sentence
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The Capital Research Center, a think tank that promotes small-government views and has been critical of public education, criticizes a 2021 handbook published by the nonprofit Education Trust-West and distributed to teachers in California.
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USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
The rule is written in the student handbook but rarely enforced.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
What is the Hot List if not a handbook for giving the gift of travel?
—Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2024
Editors’ Picks The testimony was often dry, and the hearing, which closed on Thursday, drew little attention as rafts of lawyers — as many 16 at times — haggled over picayune details of control and compensation and whether athletes had actually been given the U.S.C. student-athlete handbook.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
In a bid to claw back $2.15 billion, the struggling pharmaceutical giant Bayer CEO is doing away with middle managers and 99% of the company’s 1,362-page corporate handbook, allowing nearly 100,000 employees to self-manage.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 11 Apr. 2024
The Food and Drug Administration handbook outlines how foreign objects like rocks can get into factory filtration systems, including machines and human inspection, and stay with the produce being harvested up until the moment it’s packaged.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2024
Well, here’s a leaf from the designers’ color-courage handbook: When combining colors, remember opposites attract.
—Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
That’s the year the first edition of the Mobil Travel Guide—a handbook to roadside lodgings underwritten by Magnolia Oil (now part of Exxon Mobil) and covering the gas-station chain’s territory of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico—was published.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
The rule is written in the student handbook but rarely enforced.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
What is the Hot List if not a handbook for giving the gift of travel?
—Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2024
Editors’ Picks The testimony was often dry, and the hearing, which closed on Thursday, drew little attention as rafts of lawyers — as many 16 at times — haggled over picayune details of control and compensation and whether athletes had actually been given the U.S.C. student-athlete handbook.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
In a bid to claw back $2.15 billion, the struggling pharmaceutical giant Bayer CEO is doing away with middle managers and 99% of the company’s 1,362-page corporate handbook, allowing nearly 100,000 employees to self-manage.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 11 Apr. 2024
The Food and Drug Administration handbook outlines how foreign objects like rocks can get into factory filtration systems, including machines and human inspection, and stay with the produce being harvested up until the moment it’s packaged.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2024
Well, here’s a leaf from the designers’ color-courage handbook: When combining colors, remember opposites attract.
—Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
That’s the year the first edition of the Mobil Travel Guide—a handbook to roadside lodgings underwritten by Magnolia Oil (now part of Exxon Mobil) and covering the gas-station chain’s territory of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico—was published.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Handbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handbook. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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