Suggestion - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |səˈdʒestʃən|  American pronunciation of the word suggestion
Brit.  |səˈdʒestʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word suggestion

noun

- an idea that is suggested
the picnic was her suggestion
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection (syn: proffer, proposition)
it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse
- a just detectable amount (syn: hint, tint, trace)
- persuasion formulated as a suggestion (syn: prompting)
- the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
- the act of inducing hypnosis (syn: hypnotism, mesmerism)

Extra examples

Do you have any suggestions?

Please send comments and suggestions to our post office box.

I have a suggestion: call the store and ask them about it.

I'd like to offer a suggestion.

I reject his suggestion that we shouldn't have helped them.

The director relies on the power of suggestion rather than explicitly showing the murder.

At my suggestion we went on a picnic.

There was a suggestion of truth in what he said.

She made some very helpful suggestions but her boss rejected them all.

The picnic was her suggestion.

His suggestion produced the desired results.

...voiced a suggestion about where to go...

...I would class that suggestion as helpful, so let's make a note of it....

You've opposed every suggestion I've made.

Her suggestion has encountered a lot of opposition.

Word forms

noun
singular: suggestion
plural: suggestions
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