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English
Etymology
play + book
Pronunciation
- enPR: plā'bo͝ok, IPA(key): /ˈpleɪ.bʊk/
- enPR: plā'bo͞ok IPA(key): /ˈpleɪ.buːk/ (still sometimes northern England; otherwise obsolete)
Noun
playbook (plural playbooks)
- A book containing the text of a play or plays.
- A book of games and amusements for children.
- (US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).
- (US, figurative) A set of commonly employed tactics and strategies.
1994, Charles R. Wood, Sermon Outlines on Prayer, page 39:A Look at Satan's "Playbook"
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:This isn’t merely a gamble on May’s part. It’s an act of reckless political daring. It’s straight out of Danton’s playbook on boldness – de l’audace, et encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace. And look what happened to Danton – he lost his head.
2017 March 21, Ed Finn, “The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix”, in Slate:The company has built its business on the motto “everything is a recommendation”—the company likes to brag that it tailors every aspect of its interface for each individual user. 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.
2020 March 5, Mike Isaac, David Yaffe-Bellany, Karen Weise, “Workplace vs. Coronavirus: ‘No One Has a Playbook for This’”, in New York Times:“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. He said he was planning to have some of his office employees work from home.
2021, Arthur Conklin, Greg White, Chuck Cothren, Roger L. Davis, Dwayne Williams, Principles of Computer Security, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 542:Security administrators can create a series of runbooks and playbooks that can be used in response to a wide range of incident response activities.
2022 November 2, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu, “Elon Musk Takes a Page Out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Playbook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:But since closing his $44 billion buyout of Twitter last week, Mr. Musk has followed a surprisingly conventional social media playbook.
Derived terms
References
- ^ “Book” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 118, column 2.