handbook

noun

ˈhan(d)-ˌbu̇k How to pronounce handbook (audio)
Definition of handbooknext
as in manual
a book used for instruction in a subject a handbook of grammar

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Recent Examples of handbook Welcome to the 2025 Los Angeles Chargers offseason handbook. — Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 To create an employee handbook easily, use online templates or platforms like SHRM or Workable, which offer customizable guides tailored to small businesses. — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024 That seems like a play straight out of Reba’s handbook. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025 The handbook recommends pilots experiencing spatial disorientation rely on their instruments over visual information and transfer control to another pilot, since two people rarely experience these illusions at the same time. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handbook
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  1. manual
  2. textbook
  3. text
  4. dictionary
Noun
  • The broader process of updating the federal water control manuals that the dams abide by is ongoing.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The data hoarders collect zines, manuals, family photos, old television shows, and defunct websites—just about everything digital or digitizable at risk of disappearance.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of manual
Noun
  • Calcium ions show up prominently in any good biology textbook’s list of major molecules that help cells function.
    — Steve Granick, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The abduction of Mahmoud is textbook authoritarian conduct by the MAGA regime.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of textbook
Noun
  • For the last four Sundays, the traditional blessing that the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square has been released as a text.
    — Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
  • There’s Image Playground, which allows the user to generate AI art using text prompts or quick sketches.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of text
Noun
  • Ukrainian and Russian are among the languages available in these dictionaries.
    — Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • An amusing, and yet accurate, dictionary of birding terms that includes delightful birdorable art on nearly every page.
    — GrrlScientist, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of dictionary

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