Usher gets punishment for recommendations (10)
I believe the answer is:
guidelines
'recommendations' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'usher gets punishment' is the wordplay.
'usher' becomes 'guide' (synonyms).
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'punishment' becomes 'lines' (writing the same thing over and over).
'guide'+'lines'='GUIDELINES'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for guidelines that I've seen before include "rules" , "principles" , "advice" .)