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  • noun Plural form of rulebook.

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Examples

  • "rulebooks" - established ways to deal with problems that are rarely customized for a particular customer's situation.

    Dot Connector 2009

  • Most managers in corporations are "rulebooks" personified.

    Leadership Lessons from a Bollywood Dance Class 2009

  • Separate publications of the various unions, such as rulebooks and annual reports, made be found as individual items in library collections.

    Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

  • President Obama's regulatory reduction initiative, in which he asked government agencies to scour their rulebooks for policies that might be hampering business efforts to grow and create jobs, was a good start in exposing rules to such a test.

    Banking in a Time of Over-Regulation Frank Keating 2011

  • It is entirely possible that base 4e could expand to cover all of those scenarios when there as 7x more rulebooks as there are now mxyzplk

    Why Complain About 4e? Stop the Edition Wars! « Geek Related 2009

  • While the proposal only replaces the use of credit ratings in a set of rules for a number of large banks, it has wider implications because it shows regulators' thinking about how to cull their rulebooks of language requiring use of credit ratings.

    Banks' Ratings Reliance Nears End Alan Zibel 2011

  • Mind you, we can understand why Mr Wrong would equate tolerance of specifically sexual behaviours forbidden by obsolete rulebooks of morality with chastity.

    Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

  • Mind you, we can understand why Mr Wrong would equate tolerance of specifically sexual behaviours forbidden by obsolete rulebooks of morality with chastity.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Global organizations thought they could solve this problem with rulebooks, training programs and compliance systems, and were shocked when people deviated.

    The New Leaders: Collaborative, Not Commanding Bill George 2010

  • Global organizations thought they could solve this problem with rulebooks, training programs and compliance systems, and were shocked when people deviated.

    The New Leaders: Collaborative, Not Commanding Bill George 2010

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