Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A post with a sign giving directions for travelers, usually placed at a crossroad.
- n. Something that serves as a guide or an example; a guideline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A post placed at the point of division or intersection of two or more roads, and displaying a sign for directing travelers on their way; a finger-post.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- n. a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior
Examples
“It was many years before I realized that activism must be rooted in the very simple principle of love: love of some kind of moral or spiritual guidepost (some call their guidepost "God"), love of self, love for each other, and, unquestionably, love for humankind.”
The Huffington Post: Kevin Powell: Barack One Year Later: Open Letter to Young America
“Sandberg could have been a proud symbol of the "Cubs Way" that Epstein speaks of as a guidepost for the organization.”
“In the Citigroup case, Judge Huvelle said there was no "guidepost" to determine whether $75 million was a fair penalty.”
“The court then concluded that the civil disgorgement remedy provides an appropriate "guidepost" for computing how much of the gain is attributable to the "deception" of insider trading.”
“As an economic guidepost, copper prices historically have signaled recovery well ahead of other indicators, said Bart Melek , head of commodity strategy at TD Securities.”
“BEIJING—China's central bank set the yuan's official guidepost at a new high Monday even as global investors continued to push the currency lower, suggesting that Beijing will continue to let the Chinese currency strengthen despite global economic jitters.”
The Wall Street Journal: China Central Bank Sets Yuan Post at Record
“He says the data is a good guidepost only if they're considered alongside other economic indicators.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Monthly Employment Report Not The Final Word On Jobs
“Physical difference is the guidepost for identifying most groups targeted for oppression: Not Males, people of color/ethnicities, children, elderly, disabled, fat, and on a subtler but just as effective level, class and regional identity.”
“His book, Earth in Balance will be 20 years old in 2012, and it seems that it still stands as the most proficient guidepost to tackle the world's ecological problems.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Smith: Ed Begley Cleans Up His Act
“The People's Bank of China prohibits the yuan from rising or falling against the dollar by more than 0.5% from the dollar/yuan central parity, a daily guidepost for the currency pair, which was set at 6.3165 Friday.”
The Wall Street Journal: Yuan Hits Lower Trading Limit Against Dollar Again
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