Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

run book

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.16 in modern English

Syllables: run -book
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of procedures prepared by an administrator for the day-to-day maintenance and exception handling of an IT system; (loosely) such a set of procedures for a job whether IT-specific or not.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: playbook, cookbook"
"Security administrators can create a series of runbooks and playbooks that can be used in response to a wide range of incident response activities."

Inflected Forms

run books (plural) runbook (alternative)

Synonyms

playbook cookbook

Questions

What does run book mean?: A set of procedures prepared by an administrator for the day-to-day maintenance and exception handling of an IT system; (loosely) such a set of procedures for a job whether IT-specific or not.

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