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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recommendation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
main
▪ Its other main recommendations are as follows: * Farming.
▪ Active parent and community involvement in education is one of the main recommendations in the report.
▪ I hope, it will lead, after the election, to his supporting us in putting its main recommendations into effect.
▪ The main recommendations of the Obair Report boiled down to two things.
▪ The main recommendations of the Bains Committee centred around the respective responsibilities of members and officers.
▪ Its main recommendations amount to little more than an attempt to broaden the elite which administers the state.
personal
▪ Choosing Where To Go Many people rely on personal recommendations as to where to head for.
▪ In the search for reliability and good service, you could rely on crossed fingers or personal recommendation.
▪ Tupperware doesn't advertise for staff - all its demonstrators are recruited on personal recommendations.
▪ The tightness of the circle extends to professional staff at the Palace too, all of whom are appointed on personal recommendation.
specific
▪ This document makes several specific recommendations on pay and the desire to link it to performance.
▪ The report listed eight specific recommendations.
▪ Once you have established what your options are, you should go on to produce a specific recommendation or set of recommendations.
▪ This requires a specific recommendation by Convocation and a subsequent report by the Senate to be submitted to Council with reference to each individual.
▪ Each family and child is different and no one set of specific recommendations applies to all.
■ NOUN
policy
▪ Furthermore, the coincidence of inflation and unemployment makes the Keynesian policy recommendations very questionable.
▪ But even the high-rate areas fall short of policy recommendations.
▪ Professional librarians normally make only policy recommendations to the Library Committee, and this is the limit of their responsibility.
▪ These policy recommendations formed the basis of the 1967 Transport Bill.
▪ In 1986 the Prime Minister listed 150 select committee policy recommendations accepted by the government that year.
▪ An unambiguous policy recommendation would require evaluation of all these costs and benefits.
▪ The elements of the model set out below are drawn from Niskanen, as are the policy recommendations flowing from it.
▪ A summary of the main tenets of monetarism and the monetarist policy recommendations are summarised at the end of the next chapter.
■ VERB
accept
▪ First, he accepted many of the recommendations of the Report, particularly in relation to the role of the police.
▪ But the task force, citing the Everson study, accepted the recommendation that the reading test be extended fifteen minutes.
▪ The government has accepted Tomlinson's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas.
▪ Attorney General Janet Reno is accepting the recommendations of entirely honorable career prosecutors.
▪ The appropriate minister retains complete discretion whether or not to refer a merger to the Commission, and whether or not to accept any recommendation.
▪ The government was able to accept most of its recommendations, and the final version was published in March 200080.
▪ The governing body decided to accept the recommendation of the working party to build upon the strengths of the existing system.
▪ The Government is believed to be willing to accept the recommendation.
act
▪ On 12 August, a Cabinet Committee met to act on May's recommendations.
▪ The Federal Aviation Administration has not acted on the recommendations.
▪ But, he wants the government to act on the recommendations of the Royal Commmission on criminal justice.
▪ By law, the President of the United States must act on this recommendation by August 29, 2000.
▪ Cornwall County Council is now acting on that recommendation, but there's little sign of other counties following suit.
adopt
▪ Whether Christopher will adopt the recommendation could not be determined Tuesday.
approve
▪ And it approved the recommendation by Darlington Council not to have special exemptions for disabled drivers.
▪ The remainder of the arbitration cases are handled by the other securities bodies that must approve the recommendations.
▪ All four Democrats approved the recommendations.
▪ Next they approved all the recommendations regarding customer service and quality although they cautioned that the budget for training would be modest.
▪ The other securities bodies that must approve the recommendations handle the remainder of the arbitration cases.
based
▪ Despite considerable controversy, a Children Act was passed in 1975 based on these recommendations.
▪ Fujimori pardoned 110 inmates based on recommendations of the commission, which has identified about 400 more strong candidates for release.
consider
▪ A teacher who has visually handicapped pupils in the class will need to consider these recommendations and implement them as necessary.
▪ The council's recreation and amenities committee will consider his report and recommendations at its meeting tomorrow night.
▪ The Law Society also considers that the recommendation enabling judges to exclude relevant evidence in certain circumstances is capable of being abused.
contain
▪ The guide contains commonsense recommendations covering situations such as meetings in strangers' offices and homes, walking home alone and car breakdowns.
▪ The guidelines do not contain a recommendation to drink.
▪ Every letter I receive from her contains a recommendation to try this or that recipe.
▪ The committee reported in May 1978, in a document of some 400 pages containing 224 recommendations.
▪ The report contains recommendations aimed at organisations involved with sport for the disabled.
▪ The Auld review will also contain a series of recommendations aimed at strengthening the jury system.
▪ Earlier this week, they published their first report containing 35 action recommendations, principally on global warming and recycling.
▪ The Clyde report on the Orkney affair contains recommendations about promoting an understanding of social work's role in communities.
follow
▪ A formal tracking and feedback mechanism follows up on recommendations.
▪ If you follow the recommendations we have made you can adapt your usual eating regime to make it more nutritious.
▪ Congress does not always follow the recommendations of the nonpartisan agency.
▪ On June 19, Hankiss announced his intention to resign following a recommendation by the parliamentary cultural committee.
▪ Most of its improvements have followed recommendations the grand jury made in March when it indicted Welborn.
▪ The government decision on April 29 followed recommendation from its rail services purchasing committee, which includes Banverket.
▪ Gifford did not follow those recommendations.
implement
▪ The work required to implement recommendations under this heading may take longer than the overall planning process.
▪ They will increase their efforts to implement these recommendations.
▪ The team has reported to the Executive Team and will be re-formed to implement recommendations.
▪ The participating States will increase their efforts to implement his / her recommendations. 22.
▪ We will implement the recommendations of the Woolf Report to improve prison conditions.
▪ The Head of Department said that they had already started to implement the recommendations to them.
▪ This implemented many of the recommendations of the Stevens Committee.
▪ We have already taken steps to implement the key recommendations of the Woolf report on the future of our prisons.
include
▪ Therefore we have not felt able to include a recommendation that financial support be given for a Kirknewton to Balerno service.
▪ All eight of these included among their recommendations some version of what later became the Tenth Amendment.
▪ The survey results were analysed and a full report is due in the autumn, which will include the committee's recommendations.
▪ There are many excellent books on the subject, and we include some recommendations in the appendix.
▪ Fines for water polluters, up to £100,000 or two year prison sentences, have also been included in the recommendations.
▪ The paper includes recommendations on recycling, noise levels, aerosol use and smoking at work.
▪ They include frequent recommendations of new books he had found, and much comment on painters he had come across.
make
▪ It blames management for failing to tackle the problem and makes more than 80 recommendations for change.
▪ This was designed to increase consumer awareness of our plan - this makes the adviser's recommendation easier.
▪ Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations.
▪ Less than a week after Rice and the rest of the curriculum committee made its recommendation, Rice was asked to resign.
▪ It is, however, hard to make a recommendation to read this fine offering by Boyd without issuing a warning.
▪ Rumsfeld made no recommendations to Bush at their meeting, and so no approval was requested, said people there.
reject
▪ Accordingly the House rejected the committee's recommendations and ruled that the issuing of the libel writ was not a contempt.
▪ Governors rarely buck their chairman and directly reject his recommendations.
▪ The bureau had rejected recommendations that its agents be subjected to polygraph tests more often.
▪ The Report begins by rejecting the recommendations of the Banking Commission in relation to the mortgage of land.
▪ The judge rejected the recommendation and sentenced Flowers to the electric chair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I bought the house on the realtor's recommendation and have regretted it ever since.
▪ Schatz's former employer wrote him a recommendation.
▪ The committee made a number of recommendations for improving standards in schools.
▪ The consultants have made several very good and valid recommendations.
▪ The railway companies seem to completely ignore safety recommendations.
▪ Unless the report's recommendations are implemented soon, the future for industry could be very bleak indeed.
▪ We accept that recommendation and will act on it as soon as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that is the recommendation officers of the club are to put to members following an executive committee meeting at the weekend.
▪ By law, the President of the United States must act on this recommendation by August 29, 2000.
▪ Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations.
▪ In addition, the consultants prepared a series of flip charts for Rice to use in presenting his recommendations.
▪ The recommendations now move to the congressional intelligence committees, which are expected to introduce legislation incorporating the recommendations.
▪ The Geneva group describes peer review, voluntary, and mandatory monitoring schemes, but makes no recommendations.
▪ The review bodies are independent but Government has the option of modifying their recommendations.
▪ Unlike SSAPs, SORPs are not mandatory but companies are encouraged to comply with the recommendations that they make.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recommendation

Recommendation \Rec`om*men*da"tion\ (r?k`?m*m?n*d?"sh?n), n.

  1. The act of recommending.

  2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

  3. The state of being recommended; esteem. [R.]

    The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient.
    --Sir T. North.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recommendation

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.

Wiktionary
recommendation

n. 1 An act of recommend 2 That which is recommended 3 A commendation or endorsement

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WordNet
recommendation

  1. n. something (as a course of action) that is recommeended as advisable

  2. something that recommends (or expresses commendation) of a person or thing as worthy or desirable [syn: testimonial, good word]

  3. any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society" [syn: passport]

Wikipedia
Recommendation (European Union)

A recommendation in the European Union, according to Article 288 of the [Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union] (formerly Article 249 TEC), is one of two kinds of non- binding acts cited in the Treaty of Rome.

Recommendations are without legal force but are negotiated and voted on according to the appropriate procedure. Recommendations differ from regulations, directives and decisions, in that they are not binding for Member States. Though without legal force, they do have a political weight. The Recommendation is an instrument of indirect action aiming at preparation of legislation in Member States, differing from the Directive only by the absence of obligatory power.

Recommendation

recommendation may refer to:

  • Something akin to a norm, or norm
  • A computer-generated recommendation created by a recommender system
  • European Union recommendation, in international law
  • W3C recommendation, in Internet contexts
  • Letter of recommendation, in employment or academia
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Usage examples of "recommendation".

The apportionment of space which is made in considering the various diseases and their different stages, as well as the course which the people are advised to pursue under the different circumstances of affliction, is not always in accordance with the plans and recommendations which have been made by others who have written works on domestic medicine.

See also respirators medical response to bioterrorism, recommendations for, 169 meningitis, anthrax, 54 middle-school children, communicating with, 46-47 mildew, powdery, 152 Morris, Thomas, Jr.

It may also include investigative recommendations for interrogating or interviewing, identifying, and apprehending the offender.

I appointed the collector, as I thought, on your written recommendation, and the assessor also with your testimony of worthiness, although I know you preferred a different man.

Their insights into medicine and healing, especially in the micronutrient and dietary recommendations, brought this book into focus.

France, when he was weary, hungry, and penniless, he observed one of these patterans or Gypsy trails, and, following the direction pointed out, arrived at the resting place of some Gypsies, who received him with kindness and hospitality on the faith of no other word of recommendation than patteran.

As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page.

Alopaeus replied to the merchant that, in consequence of his recommendation the spy should be sent back safe and sound, but that another time neither the recommended nor the recommender should escape so easily.

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This gentleman, whose name I shall render as Mr L, was the very first of our spiritist clients who had come to us on the recommendation of another.

In the letter, Talman promised to give Corbin a recommendation which he was quite sure would clinch the job.

Thus, it is important to get recommendations from people who know the available practitioners--a School Counselor or Psychologist, a therapist at your Community Mental Health Center, an EAP counselor at work, or the psychiatrist who is prescribing your psych medications.

Through my recommendation a friend got one of your trusses and he is delighted.

English poets, interlarded with French phrases, which he retained for their significance, on the recommendation of his friends, being himself unacquainted with that or any other outlandish tongue.

A pearl of an agent - totally unmercenary - polyglot - a natural philosopher with innumerable contacts among the learned abroad - a man with a profession that introduced him everywhere - a physician is welcome everywhere - and a Catholic, which is such a recommendation in the greater part of the world.