book off
verb
booked off; booking off; books off
chiefly Canada
: to notify an employer that one is not reporting for work (as because of sickness)
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Transform your travel entertainment and finally cross those books off your list by taking advantage of this Prime Day deal.
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2024
One day, the treatment director took a book off the shelf in the consulting room.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 June 2024
More than 1,600 of those book banning attempts took place in Escambia County Public Schools, which is currently being sued by book publisher Penguin Random House, authors and PEN America for removing hundreds of books off shelves for review.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Of those books, 40% of the bans occur in Florida school districts, with 1,406 books off the shelf.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
Inside, parents and students traded perspectives over the district’s new approach to taking books off school library shelves during the public comment period.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
Texas has banned the teaching of critical race theory, and nationwide, libraries are pulling books off the shelves that contain diverse characters.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
For the first time in history, a blind person could pull a book off the shelf—[not just what's] printed in a specialized typeface designed in a [computer science] lab but any old book in the library.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2023
While neither Florida Department of Education nor the governor's office have called for any bans on books, the complaints have some districts preemptively pulling books off of shelves, even during the review process, to err on the side caution.
—Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2024
One day, the treatment director took a book off the shelf in the consulting room.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 June 2024
More than 1,600 of those book banning attempts took place in Escambia County Public Schools, which is currently being sued by book publisher Penguin Random House, authors and PEN America for removing hundreds of books off shelves for review.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
Of those books, 40% of the bans occur in Florida school districts, with 1,406 books off the shelf.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
Inside, parents and students traded perspectives over the district’s new approach to taking books off school library shelves during the public comment period.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
Texas has banned the teaching of critical race theory, and nationwide, libraries are pulling books off the shelves that contain diverse characters.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
For the first time in history, a blind person could pull a book off the shelf—[not just what's] printed in a specialized typeface designed in a [computer science] lab but any old book in the library.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2023
While neither Florida Department of Education nor the governor's office have called for any bans on books, the complaints have some districts preemptively pulling books off of shelves, even during the review process, to err on the side caution.
—Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
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“Book off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/book%20off. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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