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recommendation

[ rek-uh-men-dey-shuhn, -muhn- ]

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.


recommendation

/ ˌrɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən /

noun

  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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Other Words From

  • prerec·om·men·dation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of recommendation1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English recommendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendātiōn-, stem of recommendātiō, from recommendāt(us) (past participle of recommendāre; recommend ) + -iō -ion

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Synonym Study

See advice.

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Example Sentences

One of his kinder letters of recommendation warned that his scholarship was “open to the charge of sensationalism.”

The only recommendation I make is that they do it on a big training day.

Sadly, that is a recommendation that Russian journalists pursue at risk of death.

The president, according to a White House statement last week, has decided to accept our recommendation.

But there was one fact about him that makes the recommendation remarkable: he was Jewish.

Marry, let an honest man lack their assistance, and starving stares him in the face, for want of a recommendation.

All such vows are widely different from those restraints which have no higher recommendation than human authority.

Letters of Recommendation should be truthful, polite, and carefully considered.

I had brought no letters of recommendation to this amiable woman, but she happened to hear of my travels and paid me a visit.

At the fall of the Empire he lost his position, obtaining his new one on the recommendation of the Comte de Serizy.

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