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rec⋅om⋅mend

  [rek-uh-mend]
Use recommend in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
2. to represent or urge as advisable or expedient: to recommend caution.
3. to advise, as an alternative; suggest (a choice, course of action, etc.) as appropriate, beneficial, or the like: He recommended the blue-plate special. The doctor recommended special exercises for her.
4. to make desirable or attractive: a plan that has very little to recommend it.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make a recommendation.
–noun
6. Informal. a recommendation.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME recommenden < ML recommendāre, equiv. to L re- re- + commendāre to commend

Related forms:
rec⋅om⋅mend⋅a⋅ble, adjective
rec⋅om⋅mend⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. approve, condone. 3. counsel.

Antonyms:
1. condemn.
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rec·om·mend   (rěk'ə-měnd')   
v.   rec·om·mend·ed, rec·om·mend·ing, rec·om·mends

v.   tr.
  1. To praise or commend (one) to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse: recommended him for the job; recommended a car instead of an SUV.
  2. To make (the possessor, as of an attribute) attractive or acceptable: Honesty recommends any person.
  3. To commit to the charge of another; entrust.
  4. To advise or counsel: She recommended that we be on time. See Synonyms at advise.
v.   intr.
To give advice or counsel: "recommended against signing an international agreement" (Time).

[Middle English recomenden, from Medieval Latin recommendāre : Latin re-, re- + Latin commendāre, to entrust, commend; see commend.]
rec'om·mend'a·ble adj., rec'om·mend'er n.
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Recommend

Rec`om*mend"\ (r?k`?m*m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]

1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.

M[ae]cenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. --Dryden.

2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. --Pope.

3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend.

Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. --Acts xv. 40.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : recommend
Spanish: recomendar,
German: empfehlen,
Japanese: 勧める
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recommend 
1377, "praise, present as worthy," from M.L. recommendare (1216), from L. re-, intensive prefix, + commendare "commit to one's care, commend" (see commend). First record of recommendation is from 1408.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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