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1.
A ~ is a list of ingredients and a set of instructions that tell you how to cook something.
...a traditional ~ for oatmeal biscuits.
...a ~ book.
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2.
If you say that something is a ~ for a particular situation, you mean that it is likely to result in that situation.
Large-scale inflation is a ~ for disaster.
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