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recommend
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: urge , advocate ] express a good opinion of [syn: commend ] make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a commission recommends sth ▪ The commission recommended that the federal government change the way it measures inflation. experts advise/recommend sth ▪ Most financial experts recommend that you don''t borrow money ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. 2 (context transitive English) To make acceptable; to attract favor to. 3 (context transitive English) To advise, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "praise, present as worthy," from Medieval Latin recommendare , from Latin re- , here probably an intensive prefix, or else from a sense now obscure (see re- ), + commendare "commit to one's care, commend" (see commend ). Meaning "advise as to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, ...
Usage examples of recommend.
Eastern troops, he recommended to their zeal the execution of his bloody design, which might be accomplished in his absence, with less danger, perhaps, and with less reproach.
These are the methods and means recommended by the Moscow International to the rabid Socialists affiliated with it all over the world.
It need hardly be said that this version of anarchic belligerence did not recommend itself to the engineers and technologists of the Committee of Public Safety.
There is an anthrax vaccine, which, according to the CDC, is recommended for people aged eighteen years and older who have a high likelihood of coming into contact with anthrax spores.
We have already recommended that the total level of funding for intelligence be made public, and that the national intelligence program be appropriated to the National Intelligence Director, not to the secretary of defense.
You remember rendering a service to one of my friends, called Joseph Balsamo, and that this Joseph Balsamo gave you a bottle of elixir, recommending you to take three drops every morning?
The Angels phase out sexual badges after 21 years when Sonny Barger recommends in 1969 that the club clean up its act to improve its image and lower its profile.
I came to offer it to Monsieur Bourreau, as he was recommended to me as a collector of such items.
Two years later the Marquis, wishing to engage a master of singing for his son, sent to one Nicolo, the German, at Ferrara, and this musician recommended Giovanni Brith as highly qualified to sing in the latest fashion the best songs of the Venetian style.
But before the Bursar could think of anything to recommend the Public School system without offending his hostess.
Policy Board looked about for able people to reconstruct Sector Alpha Crucis, Lord Chardon recommended Desai with an enthusiasm that got him put in charge of Virgil, whose human-colonized planet Aeneas had been the spearhead of the revolt.
He could only recommend excommunication for the mimes and histrions who were corrupting the public taste.
What changes to the existing law of England regarding animal experimentation, or in the administration of the Act, did this Commission recommend?
Admiral Houser recommending the establishment of at least two more bases.
And Phoebe Hurty was able to believe that the impoliteness she recommended would give shape to an American paradise.