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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
guidance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a marriage (guidance) counsellor (=helping with marriage problems)
▪ You should talk to a marriage counsellor about your problem.
careers advice/guidance
▪ Most universities offer professional careers advice.
divine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc
▪ faith in divine providence
▪ divine power
▪ divine love
marriage guidance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
▪ RoSPA are trying to get supermarkets to change the design of their trolleys, and to give clear guidance to customers.
▪ I hope that clear guidance can be given in case this happens again.
▪ There was still no official home-school links policy document to which interested parties might turn for clear and authoritative guidance.
▪ Will the Government issue clear guidance on which responsibilities will fall to health authorities and which to social services?
▪ In the case of the News International ban it offered clear guidance on how the professional should react.
▪ Finally, clearer guidance from central government is required, and appeal decisions should be consistent with exhortations.
▪ For example, your reviewer complains that I do not provide clear guidance on which method of profit-sharing a firm should adopt.
▪ We will wish to introduce clear guidance and operational systems to expedite this as soon as possible.
detailed
▪ Video Guide, with a full introduction to project work and detailed guidance on how to use the video.
▪ The result was detailed guidance and monitoring.
▪ In June, the bishops are due to meet again and are likely to publish more detailed guidance on the new arrangements.
▪ More detailed guidance was given about what should be included under this heading, and a minimum disclosure requirement proposed.
▪ Over the years, courts and tribunals have fought shy of laying down detailed procedural guidance.
divine
▪ The ensuing silence indicated that I had not helped matters. l stared at my Keds, hoping for divine guidance.
▪ The future holds unlimited possibilities for those who will accept divine guidance and grace.
▪ Iphigenia and the others are acting under divine guidance.
expert
▪ As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood.
▪ While this may be the case, the issue of financial planning is one that requires careful thought and expert guidance.
▪ We offer free and expert guidance on all the finance aspects of home purchase.
▪ Such dramatic changes in the law make the need for expert guidance in matters of corporate and personal insolvency essential.
further
▪ In the summer, we issued further guidance designed to improve the targeting of the funds.
▪ But then it describes technical problems with both and offers little further guidance.
▪ What else could you do if you'd been given no further guidance?
▪ References 1 to 4 provide further guidance.
▪ The note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book now gives some further guidance.
▪ I shall await your further advice and guidance with interest.
▪ To provide further guidance a Definition Table was created.
▪ Work is also under way on further guidance material on core skills.
general
▪ This publication is intended only as general guidance.
▪ The table below may give some useful general guidance.
moral
▪ They need moral guidance, they need security and they need jobs.
▪ She urged churches to be the places where youngsters turn for moral guidance, healthy recreation and an optimism toward the future.
▪ It is for others to offer moral guidance to the newly prosperous Pharisees.
▪ At the same time, we all know children from affluent families who are starved for moral and ethical guidance.
new
▪ A DoH spokesman said the new guidance will clarify where inspectors can play a legitimate role.
▪ He said new guidance technology could be used to make the approach safer.
▪ The Banking Code Standards Board has drawn up new guidance on such matters as exit penalties and reasonable rates of interest.
▪ The DoH said new guidance under the Children Act may be ready by the summer.
▪ Alongside his Foxley Wood decision he published new planning guidance which tilted the general balance against giving permission for house-building.
▪ The third proposes new guidance to consolidate and update existing guidance.
▪ These documents are included with the new guidance in sections 1 and 4, and have the same status.
parental
▪ This parental guidance, however, can not always be provided.
▪ Neither does close attention and strict parental guidance.
practical
▪ The case histories and practical guidance demonstrates why international businesses dispute mediation does work.
▪ That illustrates nicely the interaction of practical and psychological guidance which characterises the best of apprenticeships.
▪ The intention is to provide practical and ethical guidance on risk issues.
▪ The authors both examine the principles underlying the subject and give practical guidance on the planning of evaluation activities in the classroom.
▪ The teachers' guide also gives practical guidance on curriculum issues.
spiritual
▪ His purpose was therefore to seek spiritual guidance rather than merely collect some ritual instruments and headgear.
▪ By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
▪ The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate.
▪ It was with this spirit that she turned to her spiritual director for guidance and advice.
▪ What then of emotional, even spiritual guidance?
▪ Our president, who has been elected to lead us into the new millennium, needs spiritual guidance like all of us.
useful
▪ The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect.
▪ The final chapter, Chapter 8, provides very useful guidance in further reading which can be invaluable to the motivated student.
▪ This has yet to be fully explored but one publication at least gives useful guidance in this.
▪ But the generals could not afford to wait, and started work well before they could get any useful political guidance.
▪ The table below may give some useful general guidance.
▪ The next case provides some useful guidance on distinguishing between fixtures and fittings.
vocational
▪ The authorities were enabled to grant scholarships, and to give vocational guidance.
▪ In this respect they are the forerunners of the juvenile labour exchanges with their affiliated services of vocational guidance and after-care.
■ NOUN
child
▪ It offers special education facilities for children who are maladjusted, usually those referred by the child guidance clinics.
▪ His monument in clinical practice was the model child guidance service in the then Borough of West Ham.
▪ The panel also arranged for William to spend two half-days a week at child guidance.
▪ One turns here to child guidance and the role of the educational psychologist.
counselor
▪ We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
▪ I must follow up problem students with the deans or the guidance counselors.
▪ You can also talk to guidance counselors.
▪ Nathaniel Martin was a teacher and guidance counselor in Claiborne County for 11 years.
▪ High-school guidance counselors and friends who are already in college need to inform young people what they are getting into.
▪ In the schools, counselors may include school psychologists as well as guidance counselors.
▪ For the one principal and one guidance counselor to have constant contact with all our kids would be an impossibility.
▪ Miss Guthridge tells Miss Peterson, the guidance counselor, that vocational aptitude tests are meaningless.
draft
▪ This was a considerable aid to understanding the thinking behind the draft guidance.
▪ We do not therefore believe the draft guidance, despite valiant efforts to convince, has fully embraced the concept of sustainability.
▪ Despite the foregoing criticisms, we recognise and welcome the change of direction signalled by the draft guidance.
marriage
▪ And even if there is a family counselling service or marriage guidance counselling there may be a waiting list.
▪ This may be perfectly legitimate but not all problems can be referred away. 2 Refer the parents for marriage guidance counselling.
▪ Courses on debt counselling followed together with requests for counselling courses to include bereavement and marriage guidance skills.
note
▪ Central Government publish general advice on a wide range of planning issues through planning policy guidance notes and circulars.
▪ The creation of a relatively simple index could help branch volunteers access some of the key information contained in the guidance notes.
▪ Detailed guidance notes outlining the conditions which must be met to stay within the new law are being issued to all farmers.
▪ Mr Patten yesterday issued a draft housing planning policy guidance note, which will update previous documents.
▪ Approval from the Bar Council has been received to guidance notes prepared for those members wishing direct access to barristers.
▪ This contains a formula offers guidance note.
▪ The guidance note will also be of interest to mortgage brokers and estate agents.
▪ A set of guidance notes is provided to assist applicants in completing the form.
planning
▪ This should be discouraged through planning guidance.
▪ Again we raised the question of enforcing planning guidance.
▪ Alongside his Foxley Wood decision he published new planning guidance which tilted the general balance against giving permission for house-building.
▪ Ystradgynlais Designed to help those fighting quarrying and opencast proposals, the course will examine Government planning guidance and local decision-making procedures.
▪ It was also accounted for in Government planning guidance and other environmental policies that influence land use.
▪ Mr. Win Griffiths Does the Minister intend to bring the concept of sustainable development right into planning guidance as a primary role?
▪ Regional planning guidance already exists in the south-east and East Anglia.
▪ Strategic planning guidance exists in all the metropolitan districts, including Tyne and Wear.
policy
▪ Central Government publish general advice on a wide range of planning issues through planning policy guidance notes and circulars.
▪ The document summarises statutory requirements and policy guidance, and comments on information contained in other Firecode series documents.
▪ Mr Patten yesterday issued a draft housing planning policy guidance note, which will update previous documents.
▪ They come into effect next month and we shall issue planning policy guidance later this month.
system
▪ All the electrical circuits and computer systems are thoroughly checked, along with the guidance systems and the life-support components.
▪ It flowed through me like a powerful guidance system....
▪ All other things being equal therefore, a missile that used echoes for its guidance system would ideally produce very high-pitched sounds.
▪ That could revolutionize guidance systems for aircraft, missiles and other devices.
▪ When the missile nears its target, it stops relying on radar and turns on a more acute guidance system.
▪ Precision Products makes navigation and guidance systems for military and space purposes.
▪ Thus if the engine fails or the guidance system has a brainstorm, the risk of blowing up friendly forces is minimised.
▪ They therefore advocated the development of electronic guidance systems for military missiles, beginning with vacuum-tube technology.
■ VERB
ask
▪ Just for once, the headstrong Duchess who had so often flouted royal convention was asking for help and guidance.
▪ We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
▪ In your mind, tell them what you are doing and ask for their guidance.
▪ It would often be necessary to go back to the user and ask for guidance on whether to broaden the search.
▪ I asked Rosalie for some guidance.
▪ You see, you must learn to ask for this guidance within on a daily basis.
▪ In this endeavour, we can ask for guidance within.
contain
▪ Home Office Circular 48/1991 contains guidance for magistrates on procedural and other matters relating to the Children Act.
▪ The internal part of the mid-section was also pressurized and contained the guidance computer and the environmental control system.
▪ The presentation contains guidance for the tutor to enable maximum learning and skill development.
▪ This contains a formula offers guidance note.
▪ Much of the detail is contained in regulations and guidance which are discussed in Part Four of this book.
follow
▪ By having regular contact with her and then following her guidance, you will dramatically increase the likelihood of success.
▪ If they have, follow the guidance given on the form.
▪ He followed his inner guidance, and the pair have since become close friends.
▪ The suggestions which follow are offered for guidance to centres developing programmes of Sciences modules.
▪ It is followed by guidance on how to make the best use of existing staff.
▪ But in another respect they take issue directly with Richards, following the guidance of Eliot.
give
▪ RoSPA are trying to get supermarkets to change the design of their trolleys, and to give clear guidance to customers.
▪ Exemplar assessments could be made available for students to study in order to give guidance on what is expected.
▪ The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect.
▪ That is something we have chatted about and given him guidance on.
▪ I have given guidance on the rules of debate.
▪ A secure soloist, it is implied, might not be given much guidance.
▪ The Video Guide gives the teacher step-by-step guidance on making the best integrated use of the video and the accompanying materials.
include
▪ This includes advice, guidance and initial financial assistance where appropriate up to a limit of £5,000 per person.
▪ Those making the allegations include a priest, guidance counselor, professor, engineer and lawyer.
▪ Courses on debt counselling followed together with requests for counselling courses to include bereavement and marriage guidance skills.
▪ Revised guidance due early this year will included strengthened guidance on these checks for hospital locums and other staff.
▪ These documents are included with the new guidance in sections 1 and 4, and have the same status.
issue
▪ The watchdog plans to issue formal regulatory guidance setting out how companies should handle endowment complaints and assess where compensation is due.
▪ The watchdog issued guidance to the industry in 1997 that covered a number of general principles.
▪ In the summer, we issued further guidance designed to improve the targeting of the funds.
▪ Will the Government issue clear guidance on which responsibilities will fall to health authorities and which to social services?
▪ They come into effect next month and we shall issue planning policy guidance later this month.
▪ For example, a job surveyor must know the areas where he is free to issue instructions and give guidance to the contractor.
▪ Surely the Lord Chancellor should have issued guidance to justices on the tariff for sentencing in such cases.
need
▪ I need your guidance and direction.
▪ They need a lot of guidance.
▪ Perhaps she might be something of a daughter figure, some one who needed guidance or protection.
▪ She needs guidance, direction from somebody, and boy does she get it from Kennedy.
▪ Emerging autonomy - the employees begin to define their own role but still need guidance. 6.
▪ Frye realized that the students needed more guidance, and the next day he talked about the construction of a narrative.
▪ They need moral guidance, they need security and they need jobs.
▪ Our president, who has been elected to lead us into the new millennium, needs spiritual guidance like all of us.
offer
▪ Nor can mosaic pavements offer any guidance, since their themes are commonly drawn from classical mythology.
▪ Nature, the master manager of complexity, offers priceless guidance in handling messy, counterintuitive webs.
▪ There are positive implications for the providers of well organized clubs offering guidance and instruction at varying levels.
▪ But if we are uncertain about the particulars, we have been offered explicit guidance on the principle.
▪ Qualified staff on hand to answer your questions and offer guidance on possible strategies for planning, and study options available.
▪ But then it describes technical problems with both and offers little further guidance.
▪ If you can offer any information or guidance on career-changing workshops etc., I would be very grateful.
▪ We offer free and expert guidance on all the finance aspects of home purchase.
produce
▪ To support this, we have produced fairly extensive guidance and support materials for our assessors, and for the trainees.
▪ The teacher's aid can give valuable assistance in producing specialised materials under guidance of the teacher or adviser.
▪ To monitor, advise and produce guidance notes, when appropriate, on all new legislation affecting work of the section.
▪ Robydome Electronics has already taken on the commercial licence to produce the guidance system.
provide
▪ The first such resolution is designed to provide coordination and guidance to the specialist, appropriations and tax-writing committees.
▪ It helps professionals do their jobs better by providing reassurance and guidance and direction and focus.
▪ Ford provided valuable help and guidance in implementing the Q1 system at Noble Metals.
▪ Several authoritative sources provide very detailed guidance relative to what constitutes an acceptable accounting method.
▪ The call of ethnicity of language provides no guidance to the future at all.
▪ It explains the relationship between packages and modules in some detail and provides guidance on the packaging of software.
▪ The me, being inherently fictional in nature, provides only arbitrary guidance to the speaking subject.
publish
▪ The Health and Safety Executive has published three free guidance leaflets for chemical manufacturers.
▪ Alongside his Foxley Wood decision he published new planning guidance which tilted the general balance against giving permission for house-building.
▪ We have published guidance which every Department must use in assessing the environmental impact of its policies and programmes.
▪ In June, the bishops are due to meet again and are likely to publish more detailed guidance on the new arrangements.
▪ The Treasury publishes technical guidance on investment appraisal.
▪ We will update and - for the first time - publish the guidance for Ministers on procedure.
receive
▪ A family centre may also accommodate the child and his family while they receive advice, guidance and counselling.
▪ Students in these programs have fewer required courses and receive more career guidance to help them design a course sequence.
▪ Approval from the Bar Council has been received to guidance notes prepared for those members wishing direct access to barristers.
▪ Each student also would receive guidance from an adult mentor and be involved in community service as a part of this requirement.
▪ Does he understand and accept that it is important that local authorities should receive reliable guidance as soon as possible?
▪ For them there are fewer opportunities for planning and leading worship, and they receive correspondingly less guidance.
▪ In doing the job they receive little formal guidance from legal rules or administrative policy.
require
▪ These parents require extensive support, guidance, and help in learning what to do.
▪ They require careful guidance and training by senior academic physicians to reach their full potential.
▪ Although prosecutions are rare, editors require some guidance as to whether action is likely to follow a particular disclosure.
seek
▪ I seek your guidance on two further matters, Mr. Speaker.
▪ I sought guidance from Kenny, friend and computer wizard.
▪ I seek your guidance about a matter on today's Order Paper that is causing some confusion.
▪ By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
▪ I seek your guidance on a matter that may arise in future.
▪ I thought that that could not be used, so I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker.
▪ They had to take the initiative, but they were encouraged to seek technical guidance wherever they could get it.
▪ His purpose was therefore to seek spiritual guidance rather than merely collect some ritual instruments and headgear.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ practical guidance and support for people working abroad
▪ The missiles have an electronic guidance system.
▪ Your teacher can give you guidance on choosing a career and writing a job application.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this is actually only one of six sets of regulations and guidance which are due to come into force.
▪ I thought that that could not be used, so I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker.
▪ Iphigenia and the others are acting under divine guidance.
▪ It may be a guidance counselor who is interested in getting the school to develop strategies to help work-inhibited students.
▪ Neither does close attention and strict parental guidance.
▪ Seek immediate guidance on sick fish and treat quickly as recommended.
▪ Unless the youth group has adequate guidance and counselling, individuals may find choice difficult.
▪ Why does guidance act as a punisher since a child may enjoy the contact it brings?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guidance

Guidance \Guid"ance\, n. [See Guide.] The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

His studies were without guidance and without plan.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
guidance

1530s, "the process of directing conduct," hybrid from guide + -ance; replacing 15c. guying. In reference to direction in school, career, marriage, etc., from 1927.

Wiktionary
guidance

n. 1 the act or process of guiding 2 advice or counselling on some topic 3 any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

WordNet
guidance
  1. n. something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction]

  2. the act of guiding or showing the way [syn: steering]

  3. the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king" [syn: steering, direction]

Wikipedia
Guidance

Guidance may refer to:

  • What a guide gives
  • Guidance (finance), a corporation's prediction of its near-future profit or loss
  • Guidance system, devices used for navigation
  • Guidance Solutions, an eCommerce development company
  • Guidance Software, a company that provides software for digital investigations
  • Guidance Recordings, a record label
  • Guidance (film), a Canadian comedy film released in 2014
  • "Guidance", an episode of Death Note
  • Guidance (album), an album by American instrumental rock band Russian Circles
Guidance (film)

Guidance is a Canadian dark comedy film, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival on September 5, 2014 as part of the Discovery program.

The full-length directorial debut of Pat Mills, the film stars Mills as David Gold, a down on his luck former child star who fabricates his credentials to take a job as a high school guidance counsellor. An unrecovered alcoholic and drug addict troubled by his faded success and in deep denial about both his closeted gay sexuality and his health following a skin cancer diagnosis, he becomes unexpectedly popular with the students after his habit of introducing them to his own deeply unhealthy coping mechanisms actually helps many of them solve their own problems.

The film's cast also includes Kevin Hanchard, Alex Ozerov, Jen Goodhue, Maria Vacratsis, Eleanor Zichy and Allison Hossack. It has been picked up by Strand Releasing for distribution in the United States.

Guidance (album)

' Guidance 'is the sixth studio album by American instrumental rock band Russian Circles, released on August 5, 2016 through Sargent House. The album was recorded and produced at God City Studio by Kurt Ballou.

Usage examples of "guidance".

The Zondarians quickly saw the wisdom in acceding to our gentle guidance, and put themselves under Thallonian rule.

The bomb aimer was supposed to tome up on to the main flight-deck for the landing but I always stayed down in the nose in case the pilot needed any last-minute guidance.

Rather, the Ashram was a beautiful retreat in a lovely location, where under the gentle guidance of the Teacher each worshiped in his own way, at a cost of seven hundred dollars per week, room and board included.

If you decide to cross that dread threshold, may Ath Creator stand at your shoulder with every bright power of guidance.

I think I can disable the instructions we gave it earlier, slow it down, and re-program it to follow guidance from here based on what we see from its onboard camera.

She then erected another pyramid to obtain guidance on our quest, and I so directed things that the answer came that she must write to the moon.

Charon as Daric, bewildered, given equivocal guidance by a small legion of artificial intelligences and twilight beings, pursues his destiny.

He had come to Castle Dring hoping to find solace in the company of his adopted family, to seek counsel from the Wolf, and to beg his patron god for guidance.

Divine power was as infinite as human expectation, and the Egyptian, duly ensepulchred in the Lybian Catacombs, was supposed to be already on his way to the Fortunate Abodes under the guidance of Hermes, there to obtain a perfect association and reunion with his God.

How can we tell them that, even with our guidance and intervention, the link between Ephemera and the human heart is unbreakable, and the world around them is nothing more or less than a reflection of themselves?

As yet only a few on the mountaintops have caught sight of the Glorious Orb, but already its rays are illumining heaven and earth, and erelong it will rise above the mountains and shine with full strength on the plains and valleys too, giving life and guidance to all.

It seemed to me then that this might have happened by a handling-machine escaping from the guidance of its Martian.

Since insanity is chiefly a manifestation of mental or psychological disturbance-a Psychic neurosis-the symptomatology therefore should offer a guidance in ascertaining the etiology, and assist as well in arriving at a solution of the 14 mental pathology.

The most that can now be done is to urge that a full knowledge of the family history of an intended life partner be sought, to encourage the discreet inquiries and subtle guidance of parents, and to appeal to the eugenic conscience of a young man or woman.

FDNY ordered both towers fully evacuated by 8:57,but this guidance was not conveyed to 911 operators and FDNY dispatchers, who for the next hour often continued to advise civilians not to self-evacuate, regardless of whether they were above or below the impact zones.