the Yellow Booknoun
also the yellow book ukusinformal FINANCE, STOCK MARKET a book that gives the rules of the London Stock Exchange for shares that are traded there:
A firm that provides consulting services for nonprofit audit clients must conform to Yellow Book standards.
IT the book that gives details of the standard for the physical format of CDs to be used for storing information:
The 1985 Yellow Book standard adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.