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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recommend
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 on credit cards.
heartily recommend
▪ This is a book I heartily recommend to all hill walkers.
strongly suggest/advise/recommend sth
▪ Before taking action, you are strongly recommended to consult an accountant.
the agreed/stipulated/recommended maximum (=one that is agreed between people)
▪ A pregnant woman should drink no more than the recommended maximum of 4 units per week.
the recommended dose (=recommended by medical experts)
▪ The current recommended dose is 250 mg a day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Our route descriptions also recommend a variety of restaurants or bars to visit enroute for light refreshment.
▪ The Committee is also recommending campaign finance provisions similar to those now in place in the City of Tucson.
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ It also recommended that insurers cover such care.
▪ However, it is also recommending urban extensions to cities like Bath and Cheltenham, and new settlements in Devon.
▪ It also recommends a study of how to protect aircraft from missiles.
▪ It also recommends that the directors should be required to make a statement about their responsibilities in relation to the accounts.
▪ We also recommend buying good-quality paint.
highly
▪ The holiday was one I have always dreamed about and I would highly recommend the centre to any outdoor enthusiast.
▪ Many of these products are as close to the natural diet as one can get and are highly recommended.
▪ She had come highly recommended, her latest play having run for six months in London.
▪ A kitchen fan or open windows are highly recommended.
▪ The hotel grows its own produce and its wines are highly recommended.
▪ All ages are welcome, and warm clothes are highly recommended, along with a flashlight, binoculars and a blanket.
▪ Their booklets are written by specialists in the field, and are highly recommended.
▪ A dunk into that aforementioned garlic butter sauce is highly recommended.
strongly
▪ The Association would strongly recommend that they should take effect at the earliest in January of the following year.
▪ After the third such bout in the space of a few months, a tonsillectomy was strongly recommended by the family physician.
▪ The type of detailed empirical research reviewed above suggests that scepticism is to be strongly recommended.
▪ So we recommend strongly that you use your emotions to help set your compass.
▪ This is a good book and I strongly recommend it.
▪ We strongly recommend the use of an instant read thermometer to determine doneness more accurately.
▪ Stapledon strongly recommends a second harrowing to cover the seeds before rolling.
▪ Johnson strongly recommended Ben Rich to succeed him.
■ NOUN
action
▪ The Head of Department in consultation with the Dean is responsible for recommending appropriate action in cases of suspected cheating or plagiarism by students.
▪ He called for the four counties to hire a consultant to study the region before recommending a course of action.
▪ It recommended disciplinary action against the department's bureau of political-military affairs for failing to stop the violations.
▪ Can you recommend a course of action?
▪ Planners have recommended enforcement action compelling the club to remove the wire with 12 months lee-way.
▪ I recommend that the following action now be taken: 1.
▪ On the radio, police supervisors were recommending alternate courses of action.
▪ Each concluded that there was no demonstrable basis for concern about independence and therefore they recommended no special action.
board
▪ The board has recommended a final dividend of 6 pence per share, for an unchanged 10 pence total for the year.
▪ Those boards recommend the promotions that then must be confirmed by the Senate.
▪ Late last year the Northern Ireland sentence review board recommended that Adair be freed from Maghaberry.
▪ The board is recommending a final dividend of 4.65 pence per share.
▪ The board are recommending a 10% increase in dividend to 7.4 pence.
▪ The board has recommended a dividend of 0.7p per share, broadly in line with last year.
▪ But family feuding and falling profits led a majority of the board to recommend a sell-out.
▪ The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence, compared with 1992's 3.02 pence.
book
▪ Summarizing, it is difficult to recommend this book.
▪ I recommend covering the book with a brown paper cover if you are easily embarrassed.
▪ In summary, it is difficult for this writer to recommend this book.
▪ But this will make it richer and more real when you recommend books to others who are questioning and searching.
▪ So I can recommend this book only to some one who has little knowledge of green issues and the science involved.
▪ I would particularly recommend this book to the non-professional reader, including industrial managers, journalists, teachers and politicians.
▪ It's a pity not to be able to recommend any books by Noam Chomsky himself.
▪ I would really like to recommend this book to research-oriented analysts and researchers in the field.
change
▪ A Royal Commission on Criminal Justice is due to recommend changes next year.
▪ During the meeting, I recommended several changes.
▪ Those who have recommended a change in the law to require the installation of smoke detectors have now got their wish.
▪ We will set up an Animal Protection Commission to enforce and recommend changes to legislation.
▪ Dan regularly empowered frontline teams to recommend changes.
▪ They can examine plans and recommend changes to reduce the incidence of crime.
▪ Simplify the practice rules: to review the existing principles on which regulation is undertaken, and recommend changes.
commission
▪ The Commission recommends that parishes explore alternative ways of singing the Psalms.
▪ The discovery prompted the safety commission to recommend a lead standard of 200 parts per million for mini-blinds.
▪ The Law Commission has recommended the partial abolition of these rules.
▪ The city Planning Commission recommended that the club be forced to pay a law-enforcement tax to help the department recover its costs.
▪ Rather, we desire that the commission should recommend the most appropriate form of local government for a particular area.
▪ The commission recommends to the government.
▪ We will set up an Animal Protection Commission to enforce and recommend changes to legislation.
▪ The commission will probably also recommend that the defence be given improved access to forensic facilities.
committee
▪ On Monday Darlington council's transport committee will be recommended to join the steering group and appoint a member.
▪ The Committee is also recommending campaign finance provisions similar to those now in place in the City of Tucson.
▪ A report to Midlothian's planning committee recommends the proposal gets the go ahead.
▪ He chaired the committee that recommended it to Clinton in 1998.
▪ The committee recommends a two-tier system of tests for identifying mutagens.
▪ After all, Pitino, a Massachusetts graduate, was on the search committee and recommended the hiring of Calipari in 1988.
▪ The committee recommends that building regulations be amended to ensure that offices and other similar buildings have adequate ventilation.
▪ He was scheduled to give it to the Ethics Committee, which will recommend what punishment the speaker should receive.
doctor
▪ Few doctors would recommend such long-term use.
▪ He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors recommended that he see orthopedic surgeons here.
▪ Some doctors recommend support tights or compression bandages-but beware.
▪ It also would protect doctors for recommending marijuana for medical purposes.
▪ A Harley Street doctor had recommended in-patient care but this would have cost the family too much.
▪ Because Type 1 diabetes tends to run in families, Chris' doctor recommended testing for all of the Birminghams.
▪ His wife was feeling the strain and the family doctor had recommended it.
▪ Her doctor recommended she consider a hysterectomy.
government
▪ Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
▪ So if Stigler admits the problem, why does he recommend that the government should usually stay away?
▪ He recommended that local governments start buying undeveloped land for affordable housing.
▪ It recommends that the government reduce spending to encourage growth in private industry to bring about faster rates of economic growth.
▪ The commission recommends to the government.
▪ There was nothing to recommend preserving the old Government until it had been formally defeated at Westminster.
▪ It recommends that the government should set a firm date for these authorities to complete surveys of their water supplies.
panel
▪ Mrs Thatcher's panel of advisers recommend against linking homes with optical fibres on the grounds of cost.
▪ The panel recommended 12 months of therapy, rather than the previous standard six months because studies have shown better long-term results.
▪ Instead of tree and branch, the panel recommend the newer concept of a switched, or star, system.
▪ The panel also could recommend Gingrich be fined and the matter be referred to the Justice Department.
▪ In that case the panel might recommend reductions in funding, which could then be applied to other areas.
▪ The panel recommended that officers refrain from such actions, Eide said.
▪ However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim.
▪ In 1990, when the ethics panel recommended a reprimand for Rep.
report
▪ Specifically the Heilbron Report did not recommend similar anonymity for defendants in rape cases.
▪ The report recommended that each midshipman and cadet spend a semester at another service academy.
▪ They studied referees' reports and may recommend pulling the plug again after the final at Wembley on March 27.
▪ The 64-page report recommended that all military education programs follow the lead of the service academies and provide intensified ethics training.
▪ The report recommends the setting up of a national environment institute and national education programmes.
▪ The report recommends that alternative methods of pain and anxiety control should be used to reduce further the use of general anaesthetics.
▪ For this reason, the report has recommended the setting up of new agencies to monitor government spending and environmental impact.
▪ The full report is likely to recommend the curriculum tread a line between principles and content.
use
▪ Surely manufacturers who offer these products and recommend them of use as a priming support for oils have done their research properly?
▪ Heretofore, the drugs have been recommended only for use in patients who have had heart attacks.
▪ We strongly recommend the use of an instant read thermometer to determine doneness more accurately.
▪ Thus co-ordinate indexing was not recommended for use in schools without very skilled staff being present to operate and coordinate its use.
▪ This species is not recommended for use in paludariums.
▪ The latter recommends the use of Ketrul 211-a Totalsolvants product-to clean up beaches.
▪ Luntz recommends that Dole use welfare overhaul as a unifying issue, because it appeals to the Buchanan Brigades without offending moderates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ask friends to recommend babysitters. That's the safest way.
▪ Ask your tour guide to recommend the best places to eat.
▪ Can you recommend a good hotel near here?
▪ Corfu was wonderful - I'd recommend it to anyone.
▪ Doctors recommend that all children be immunized against polio and tuberculosis.
▪ I strongly recommend that you get your brakes checked before you go on a long drive.
▪ I would always recommend buying a good quality bicycle rather than a cheap one.
▪ The recommended dosage for children is 20 milligrams.
▪ The directors are recommending that shareholders accept Baldwin's offer.
▪ The first applicant was recommended by a friend of the boss.
▪ The Forsyth Report recommended stricter supervision of the trade in live animals.
▪ The hotel's restaurant comes highly recommended.
▪ The prosecutor recommended a 15-year sentence.
▪ The report recommends a number of changes in the existing law.
▪ Who would you recommend for this job, Stuart?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And all over the nation, older women are getting far fewer than the recommended number of mammography exams.
▪ For a number of reasons, therefore, planners may recommend that growth should be channelled into selected settlements.
▪ I didn't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker.
▪ In summary, it is difficult for this writer to recommend this book.
▪ McGehee advocates the creation of an independent Office of Ethics Counsel to interpret the rules, investigate complaints and recommend sanctions.
▪ They would interview applicants and they would recommend a man to him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recommend

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recommend

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 action, urge (that something be done)" is from 1746. Related: Recommended; recommending.

Wiktionary
recommend

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, propose, counsel favorably 4 (context transitive archaic English) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations

WordNet
recommend
  1. v. push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: urge, advocate]

  2. express a good opinion of [syn: commend]

  3. make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person"

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.