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white book

noun

  1. an official report issued by a government, usually bound in white.


white book

noun

  1. an official government publication in some countries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of white book1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
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The divinatory meaning of the card is “power, energy, action, courage, and magnanimity,” according to the little white book that accompanies the deck.

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His wrinkled and reddened hands gripped a white book of Scripture.

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It’s assumed that Black editors don’t know white books and white publishing, but we do, because what do you think we’ve been reading all these years?

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McDonald points out that bestsellers are created by white book buyers and that right now, many of those readers may be turning to weighty studies on race primarily as a “genre of self-help book.”

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the bookstore’s executives are essentially saying in this poorly crafted statement is that they thought they could lure readers under false pretexts to drive more book sales to white books.

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