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noun

guideline

CEFR B2

a recommended rule or principle for how something should be done

In a sentence

Six example sentences with guideline, each labelled with its topic.

  • The museum's guideline for loans says a painting must rest for a year between exhibitions before it travels again.

    Art

  • Historians follow a simple guideline when quoting a diary: cite the page and never silently modernize the spelling.

    History

  • The city's design guideline recommends, but does not require, that new shopfronts keep the same cornice height as their neighbors.

    Architecture

  • A common guideline says to keep three months of expenses in cash, though freelancers are often told to hold six.

    Finance

  • The youth league's guideline limits players to one game a day, though tournaments bend it whenever brackets get crowded.

    Basketball

  • The guideline for roasting is twenty minutes per pound, but a thermometer in the thickest part settles the matter.

    Cooking

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