"off book" meaning in English

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          "text": "After 5 days studying the script, Jane is now off book, and can concentrate on gesture more.",
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          "ref": "1873, Thomas Wright, Our New Masters, Strahan & Co., page 125:",
          "text": "\"He will glibly parse a sentence ... and repeat the catechism and whole chapters of the Bible 'off book.'\"",
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          "ref": "1993, Doug Moston, Coming to Terms with Acting, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "\"In all likelihood, the director will leave you alone throughout the rest of the production and focus attention on the guy who isn't off book yet.\"",
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          "ref": "2003, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Picador,, →ISBN, page 332:",
          "text": "\"'So if Antigone wants to be off book, I think the rest of you should be off book too.'\"",
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        "(theater) No longer needing the script to rehearse."
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          "text": "\"in the winter of 1957-58 prices were 60 percent off book.\"",
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "on the book"
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
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