recommendation
[rek-uh-men-dey-shuh n, -muh n-]
- an act of recommending.
- a letter or the like recommending a person or thing.
- representation in favor of a person or thing.
- anything that serves to recommend a person or thing, or induce acceptance or favor.
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Origin of recommendation
Synonym study
1. See advice.
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Examples from the Web for recommendation
Contemporary Examples
One of his kinder letters of recommendation warned that his scholarship was “open to the charge of sensationalism.”
Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever ImagineTom Arnold-Forster
November 3, 2014
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.
Meet the Censors, Propagandists and Outright Liars Who Won Putin’s PulitzersJames Kirchick
May 5, 2014
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.
The Jews Who Fought for Hitler: ‘We Did Not Help the Germans. We Had a Common Enemy’The Telegraph
March 10, 2014
Historical Examples
"I shan't need any recommendation from your father," said Robert.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
Be very particular to deserve my custom and recommendation, David.'
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
What was the peculiarity about the mine which constituted its recommendation to investors?
A Woman IntervenesRobert Barr
And now tell me, what higher letters of recommendation have they to men than this folly?
The Praise of FollyDesiderius Erasmus
The Chinese and Japanese eat it, but that isn't much of a recommendation to a European.
The Cruise of the Dry DockT. S. Stribling
recommendation
- the act of recommending
- something that recommends, esp a letter presenting someone as suitable for a job, etc
- something that is recommended, such as a course of action
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Word Origin and History for recommendation
n.
early 15c., "action of commending oneself to another," from Old French recommendation (Modern French recommandation), from Medieval Latin recommendationem (nominative recommendatio), noun of action from past participle stem of recommendare (see recommend). Meaning "act of recommending (someone or something) as worthy" is from 1570s. Letter of recommendation is from late 15c.
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