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1. Direction or helpful suggestions regarding a decision or future course of action
   - counsel, counseling [US], counselling [Brit, Cdn], direction
    
2. The act of guiding or showing the way
   - steering
    
3. The act of setting and holding a course
   "a new council was installed under the guidance of the king";
   - steering, direction

Derived forms: guidances

Type of: content, control, direction, management, message, subject matter, substance

Encyclopedia: Guidance Guidance, Navigation and Control