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[Computer] < publication > A humorous and/or disparaging term for the rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards. See also Orange ...

plural noun   Playing-cards

Verb: hit the books Learn by reading books "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" - study Derived forms: hits the books, hit the books, hitting the...

[Medicine] Books containing photographs,prints,drawings,portraits,plates,diagrams,facsimiles,maps,tables,or other representations or systematic arrangement of data designed to elucidate or...

[American slang] v. phr. To keep records of money gained and spent; do the work of a bookkeeper. Miss Jones keeps the company's books.

[Business] adjective [only before noun] ( Accounting ) not officially recorded, in order to avoid tax or deceive the authorities: The company had massive off-the-books debts....

[American idiom] a record-breaking act. • What a dive! That's one for the record books. • I've never heard such a funny joke. That's really one for the books. ; [American slang] n,...

[American slang] Go to hit the books

[Medicine] Books designed by the arrangement and treatment of their subject matter to be consulted for definite terms of information rather than to be read consecutively. Reference books i...

plural noun   Prophetic books said to have been offered to the Roman king Tarquinius Superbus by the Sibyl of Cumae, of which he ultimately bought three for the price he had ref...