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Meaning of suggestion

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

suggestion

Pronunciation:/səˈd͡ʒɛstjən//səɡˈd͡ʒɛstʃən/

noun

Definitions

  1. Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

    Example: I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

  2. The act of suggesting.

    Example: Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

  3. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

    Example: He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

  4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.