recipe — OET · Shobdo

recipe

noun

1 try our quick and tasty recipe for beef goulash:

cooking directions;

archaic receipt.

2 low local taxes are not always a recipe for electoral success:

means/way of achieving, means/way of ensuring;

prescription, formula, method, technique, system, procedure, plan;

likely cause of, source of;

MO, process, means, way;

blueprint;

Latin modus operandi.

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