refer to

refer (one) to (someone or something)

To send or direct one to someone or something as a source of information or support. You can refer the customer to clause 34-B if they are still unsure of their obligation. Let me refer you to a friend of mine. He's a clinical psychologist and may be able to help.
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refer to (someone or something)

1. To mention or make a reference to someone or something. "What a loudmouth," said John, referring to Tom. I was referring to Paris, Texas, not Paris, France.
2. To indicate, signify, or point to someone or something. The first pie chart refers to the company's various expenditures, while the second refers to our sources of revenue. This line in the application refers to people with a weekly income of less than $500.
3. To look or turn to something as a source of information or support. Please refer to your employee handbook if you have any questions about these policies.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

refer someone to someone or something

to direct someone to someone or something; to send someone to someone or something. The front office referred me to you, and you are now referring me to someone else! They should have referred you to the personnel department.
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refer to someone or something

to mention someone or something. Are you referring tome when you speak about a kind and helpful person? I was referring to the personnel department.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

refer to

v.
1. To mention or reference someone or something: When you say he's clumsy, are you referring to what he did the other day? When we are in the meeting, refer to me as your colleague and not as your sister.
2. To signify something or someone directly; denote something or someone: The red line on the graph refers to the birth rate and the blue line to the death rate.
3. To pertain to something or someone; concern something or someone: I have a question referring to yesterday's lecture.
4. To direct someone to someone or something for help, support, or information: My doctor couldn't find the problem, so she referred me to a specialist.
5. To have recourse to someone or something for help, support, or information; turn to someone or something: Whenever I encounter a word that I don't know, I refer to a dictionary.
6. To direct the attention of someone to something: The instructor referred us to the third page of the manual.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
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References in periodicals archive
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The reason behind Obama using ISIL to refer to the terrorist group was believed to be partly geographical and partly grammatical. In 2013, the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the group was called the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
Trump Administration Won't Call Extremist Group 'ISIL' Like Obama Did
Synochdoch (time and place, a container is used to refer to its contents):
A review of metaphor and trope in Nafsat-al-Masdur
(3) From that usage, "chair" also came to refer to a professor's chair, the chair from which the professor lectured and exercised his authority.
Dale Martin's "arsenokoites and malakos" tried and found wanting
According to Canadian Press usage, however, it is customary to refer to public figures by surnames only.
From Christopher Foley re Clergy titles
It was not unusual for providers to refer to those with whom they played golf or tennis, or attended medical school.
Standing out in the crowd: securing preferred referral status
What war was being fought in 1776, and why does Lincoln refer to it in his speech?
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address
Refer to: Avis d'appel d'offres international, AOI No 01.
Agricultural program
In our area since April this year we have been able to refer to a GP who has specialised in back problems and who does injections and manipulations.
Why we must put our back into bringing down orthopaedic waiting lists
In order to come to terms with the large number of names used to refer to students' ideas the following theoretical assumptions are made.
The foundation of students' perceptions
Such evaluation will deal with the following issues: the attention given to the environment in the AHDR, the AHDR's environmental paradigm, the analytical value of the AHDR, the comprehensiveness of the issues outlined in the AHDR, the strategies advocated in the AHDR, and it will finally refer to the question of the environment within the framework of the Middle East peace process, a dimension which was bypassed in the AHDR.
The environment in the 2002 Arab Human Development Report: a critique
Names can refer to things other than cell ranges or formulas, such as percentages.
In Excel, cell names spell speed, safety: give a cell a name, and your work will go faster and be more error-free
He admits that proverbs conveying a moral in veiled form are the best in their category; but he rightly refers to the practice of ancient authors, who frequently refer to expressions as proverbial even when they lack these characteristics.
Dutch proverbs and expressions in Erasmus' Adages, Colloquies, and Letters (*)
For slides from the APEX forum, refer to www.nemi.org.
NIST helps set the standards across the electronics manufacturing supply chain. (News Briefs)