Meaning & use
recipe
A set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, listing the ingredients and the steps needed.
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She followed her grandmother's recipe exactly to make the same chocolate cake every year.
Ignoring safety training is a recipe for disaster on a construction site.
A note on using this word
'A recipe for' something is a common figurative phrase meaning a combination of factors likely to produce a particular, often bad, result.
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