recommendation
Use Recommendation in a sentence
ə noun
1.
an act of recommending.
2.
a letter or the like recommending a person or thing.
3.
representation in favor of a person or thing.
4.
anything that serves to recommend a person or thing, or induce acceptance or favor.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act of recommending |
| 2. | something that recommends, esp a letter presenting someone as suitable for a job, etc |
| 3. | something that is recommended, such as a course of action |
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Word Origin & History
recommendation
mid-15c., from O.Fr. recommendation (Mod.Fr. recommandation), from M.L. recommendationem, noun of action from recommendare (see recommend). Letter of recommendation is from late 15c.
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Example sentences
Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
If a writer or editor takes the time to make a recommendation, he must care about my work and want to make it better.
It's difficult to make a blanket recommendation when you're tasked with trying to figure a dose out for millions of people.
Then skip the insult and go straight to the recommendation.
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