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a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic
How To Use reference book In A Sentence
- Some are important reference books; some are expensive hardbacks; some were presents.
- What gets in, what stays out and what gets in but in the wrong place are staple issues for those reviewing reference books. The Times Literary Supplement
- At the end of the supposed bad publicity, “Lucian said that despite the mistakes, he still thought the encyclopaedia was the best reference book he knew.” Scripting News for 9/12/2006 « Scripting News Annex
- Knowledge of reference books is therefore of great value when a rare netsuke is being sold for what appears to be a bargain price.
- Besides the standard dictionaries, encyclopedias and almanacs, I have shelf upon shelf of volumes that perhaps even a professional librarian wouldn't recognise as reference books.
- It stocks a vast selection of books and magazines going far beyond the expected reference books and encyclopaedias.
- In the meantime, publishers continue to publish, between two covers, all sorts of reference books.
- The teacher mentioned a few valuable reference books.
- Three women huddle together with reference books on their laps and discuss post-colonialism, aesthetics, and ideology.
- In the meantime, publishers continue to publish, between two covers, all sorts of reference books.
