Crossword clues for guideline
guideline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
guideline \guideline\ n. hypen is changed from WN: adjust hier. a formal rule describing how a situation must be handled; -- used as a direction to administrators from superiors.
Syn: guidelines.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour. 2 A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action. 3 A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
WordNet
n. a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters
a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action; "the president said he had a road map for normalizing relations with Vietnam" [syn: road map]
a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior [syn: guidepost, rule of thumb]
Wikipedia
A guideline is a statement by which to determine a course of action. A guideline aims to streamline particular processes according to a set routine or sound practice. By definition, following a guideline is never mandatory. Guidelines are not binding and are not enforced. ( U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, http://www.va.gov/trm/TRMGlossaryPage.asp )
Guidelines may be issued by and used by any organization (governmental or private) to make the actions of its employees or divisions more predictable, and presumably of higher quality.
Examples of guidelines are:
- Code of practice
- EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office
- The Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation
- Medical guidelines
- Human interface guidelines
- Publicly Available Specification
- Programming style guidelines
- UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines
Usage examples of "guideline".
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I used to nick people for pollution, breaching research guidelines, illegal biomaterials, that sort of thing.
Maybe between happy reminiscences about the good old days of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Elian Gonzales raid, Ben-Veniste could ask Gorelick about those guidelines.
During that time, the Order shall take such steps as are necessary to bring all such seminaries into accord with the new guidelines promulgated by the Council of Ramos, so that by Lammastide next, in the second year of the reign of our Lord King Alroy, an officially sanctioned series of approved seminaries may be duly reconstituted and the training of priests resumed, to the greater glory of God.
Before he could provide care-of-the-cat guidelines, Luba Washington disappeared on a waft of roast goose.
Her colleagues were talking too fast and clipping the ends of their sentences off in a way that suggested they were barely managing to remain within the Federation guidelines for nondiscriminatory civil speech.
After months of frustrating delays, tensions erupted during one secure videoconference call between Baghdad and Langley when the deputy station chief in Baghdad started yelling at headquarters staffers, demanding that they provide the written guidelines for interrogations that the station had requested.
It was tricky work laying out the guidelines on the walls with the yardstick, first the horizontals, moving the stepladder across from left to right three feet at a hop, then the verticals, easy enough at the bottom but flirting more and more dangerously with wobbliness as she drew nearer to the top and was forced to go up on tiptoe.
But there are other issues involved that make these guidelines highly suspect, and these have to do with the incommensurability Christian asserts between religious and scientific theories.
As you know, Senator Thurmond and I worked for many years with the chairman, Biden, to pass the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the law that abolished the federal parole and created a sentencing guideline system in the federal courts.
Once they were hired, employees had to observe dress guidelines, stipulating that they wear clean white shirts with sleeves neatly folded, a clean black necktie, clean patchless white pants, and a clean white apron free of stains.
The testimony of a telepath is, I believe, still not admissable in court except under fairly strict guidelines.
Tashvi bellowed, "And they coped with the emergency, and gave us specific guidelines to follow when the planet came back.
Washington censured him for this and reiterated the guidelines his former letter had laid down.
Criminals’ rights were curtailed and stricter sentencing guidelines put in place.