Blue book

n. school exam book for writing the answers or directory listing VIP's (in the United States); official government report covered in blue (in England)

Blue book is used in various fields and often refers to an almanac or other compilation of statistics and information. Specifically:U.K. politics and governmentTreachery of the Blue Books, an 1847 Welsh parliamentary report on the state of education in the countryThe nickname given to a parliamentary paper. In the 19th century, many of these were issued with a blue cover, and the term was applied to all parliamentary papers. Now obsolete.A weekly digest of signals intelligence reports by the British intelligence agency GCHQThe nickname of the annual publication of the Motor Sports AssociationAnnual reports produced by the governments of each crown colony and protectorate of the British EmpireThe United Kingdom annual National Statistics Blue Book, containing the estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure.
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Noun
1. a report published by the British government; bound in blue
(hypernym) report, study, written report
2. a register of persons who are socially prominent
(hypernym) directory
3. a blue-covered booklet used in universities for writing examinations
(hypernym) booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet

The United States official "Biennial Register."
  

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
  

1. <publication> Informal name for one of the four standard references on the page-layout and graphics-control language PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Green Book, the Red Book, and the White Book.
["PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook", Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, (ISBN 0-201-10179-3)].
2. <publication> Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has green and red siblings.
["Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation", David Robson, Addison-Wesley 1983, (ISBN 0-201-11371-63)].
3. <publication> Any of the 1988 standards issued by the ITU-T's ninth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 electronic mail specification and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards.
See also book titles.
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