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1.
A ~ is a book containing the official rules for a particular game, job, or organization.
...one of the most serious offences mentioned in the Party ~.
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2.
If you say that someone is doing something by the ~, you mean that they are doing it in the normal, accepted way.
This was not the time to take risks; he knew he should play it by the ~.
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