off-book en · ADJ
Etymology
From off- + book.
Meanings
- Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
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Off the books, not officially recorded.
An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
Translations (1)
cmn 脫稿 /脱稿 (Able to perform scripted material from memory)