1 ~ (for sth) a set of instructions that tells you how to cook sth and the items of food you need for it:
a recipe for chicken soup * vegetarian recipes * a recipe book
2 ~ for sth a method or an idea that seems likely to have a particular result:
His plans are a recipe for disaster. * What's her recipe for success?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for recipe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is recipe a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, recipe is tagged as noun.
Does recipe appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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