signpost
Noun
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Noun
signpost (plural signposts)
- a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
- (cryptic crosswords) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.
- French: poteau indicateur
- German: Signalposten, Wegweiser, Signalpfosten, Richtungsweiser
- Russian: указа́тельный столб
- Spanish: letrero
signpost (signposts, present participle signposting; past and past participle signposted)
- (transitive) To install signposts on.
- The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.
- (transitive) To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
- 2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)
- We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.
- 2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)
- To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
- Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'
- To signal, as if with a signpost
- German: ausschildern
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