guidance

[ gahyd-ns ]

noun

1. the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.

   Synonyms: government, control, supervision, conduct, management

2. advice or counseling, especially that provided for students choosing a course of study or preparing for a vocation.
3. supervised care or assistance, especially therapeutic help in the treatment of minor emotional disturbances.
4. something that guides.
5. the process by which the flight of a missile or rocket may be altered in speed and direction in response to controls situated either wholly in the projectile or partly at a base.

guidance

/ ˈɡaɪdəns /

noun

1. leadership, instruction, or direction
2. 1. counselling or advice on educational, vocational, or psychological matters
   2. ( as modifier )

      the marriage-guidance counsellor

3. something that guides
4. See guided missile
   any process by which the flight path of a missile is controlled in flight See also guided missile

Other Words From

• non·guidance noun
• pre·guidance noun
• self-guidance noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of guidance¹

First recorded in 1765–75; guide + -ance

Example Sentences

“The USMS’s detention facility oversight plan is inconsistent and does not ensure that all active facilities” comply with the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, says the watchdog’s report.

From Washington Post

Because of the pandemic, the IRS has issued guidance that gave 529-plan account holders a longer window to return refunded college expenses.

From Washington Post

A guidance on hearing risks places danger at any level above 80 decibels and the loudest concerts as hitting roughly 120 decibels.

From Ars Technica

The guidance comes at a potentially perilous moment, as health officials race to vaccinate tens of millions of people to protect them from more transmissible and possibly more lethal variants but remain hampered by a limited vaccine supply.

From Washington Post

Seeking guidance or good fortune, Dido would quickly mold one from the clay next to the field where she harvested wheat.

From Popular-Science

Jettison your lawyers as a source of prison-yard guidance, Abramoff said.

From The Daily Beast

“Very few agencies offer police any specific guidance or training on how to question people with ID,” said Garrett.

From The Daily Beast

“Some tribes” have “requested guidance on the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA),” the opening reads.

From The Daily Beast

According to Wahlberg, his time in prison, as well as the guidance of a parish priest, helped him turn his life around.

From The Daily Beast

Mariame protests, and tells the guidance counselor that she does not understand.

From The Daily Beast

And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.

From Project Gutenberg

In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.

From Project Gutenberg

For thousands of years—perhaps for millions of years—the generations of men prayed to God for help, for comfort, for guidance.

From Project Gutenberg

And efforts should be made, and supplications offered, to obtain guidance on this point into all truth.

From Project Gutenberg

Chumru and the ryot bestrode the third horse, and under the guidance of one who knew every path, they set out for the Ganges.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• advice
• direction
• instruction
• intelligence
• leadership
• management
• navigation
• supervision
• teaching