playbook Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
   
2. noun a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays
   
   • the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene
3. noun a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign
   
   • they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition

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