The word "signpost" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a physical signpost (an outdoor post with words on it that gives directions) or as a metaphor for a guide or prompt that helps someone to know what to do. For example: "The email we sent out to all our customers included signposts to help them navigate the new website."
Mattie Faint has been a professional clown since he was 17 when, as a theatre student up from Plymouth, he got a gig as a grease-painted human signpost for a puppet show in London.
Here are 10 tips from a range of university professionals: "I would encourage all academics to find out about their university's welfare services that are available to students so they are able to signpost effectively".
A signpost directs customers who consider themselves "rich" up a red carpet to the entrance, while the queue of "poor" – many, in fact, homeless – people winds around the side of the building.
Their footnotes signpost all the major events of the great war and provide the reader with some delicious quotes.Like the best diarists, Margot is loose-lipped: Americans are dim, the French are disloyal, Germans are "great, coarse, savage brutes".
The campus signpost, for example, is sponsored by Peugeot Citroën.The school has over 1,500 students and almost as many professors, many of whom are much younger than their students.
And for almost as long, some of the world's best diplomatic and legal minds have retorted that trying to pin down a legal definition of aggression is at best fruitless, at worst harmful.The sceptics' case was well put by Sir Austen Chamberlain, a British foreign secretary, who said in 1928 that such a definition could be a "trap for the innocent and a signpost for the guilty".
One signpost said "inat" (a Serbian word that translates roughly as "spite") and the other "Brussels".
A signpost near the kangaroos, making the sacrilegious claim that the continents shifted 40m years ago, used to be defaced almost daily.
A signpost invites him down a path from which no one has ever returned.
For him the netsuke, so small and captivating, were not enough as a mere signpost to a family history.
Main reasons: labour-market rigidity and high costs, not least due to social-security contributions, which have now risen to 42% of wages and salaries.Against that background, the doubling of DM610 jobs over the past decade to a current total of 5.6m looks less like a curse and more like a signpost to a cure.
