signposting

Verb

signpost (third-person singular simple present signposts, present participle signposting, simple past and past participle signposted)

1. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To install signposts on.
   • The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
   • 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)
3. (figuratively, transitive) To signal (something) intentionally, as if with a signpost.
   1. (figuratively, transitive) To indicate (as the 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...2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013

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