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📄 Not official advice ❓ No direction 🙅 No advice given
nonguidance

nonguidance

9.4
A document that says it is not official advice
  • noun
  • /nɒnˈɡaɪdəns/
translation icon : documento no orientador
  • The agency released a nonguidance statement to clarify that it was not an official policy.

Examples

  • The notice was labeled as nonguidance to avoid confusion with formal instructions.

  • Lawyers reviewed the nonguidance document to ensure it did not imply any legal obligation.

  • The report included a section on nonguidance for clarity.

  • In the meeting, they discussed nonguidance as a policy.

  • The agency released a nonguidance statement to clarify that it was not an official policy.

  • Lawyers reviewed the nonguidance document to ensure it did not imply any legal obligation.

  • The notice was labeled as nonguidance to avoid confusion with formal instructions.

How Official

regulation
  • Formal
4.0
remark
371 1.4
nonguidance
9.4

Surface Forms

nonguidance singular
nonguidances plural

Morphology

nonguidance = guidance (transparent) = non + guidance

Labeling a document or statement as 'non-guidance' is a direct negation of 'guidance' and follows an expected usage pattern.

Etymology

Nonguidance joins non- 'not' and guidance 'to show the way', like a label that says 'this is not official advice'. So a nonguidance document is a notice or statement that is not formal instruction.