rule book

1. 1.

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

   “they run things by the book around here”

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   Partsrule

Questions about rule book

What does rule book mean?

rule book means "a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made".

What is another word for rule book?

Close synonyms include book. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rule book a common word?

rule book is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.