quotation
Americannoun
noun
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a phrase or passage from a book, poem, play, etc, remembered and spoken, esp to illustrate succinctly or support a point or an argument
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the act or habit of quoting from books, plays, poems, etc
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commerce a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
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an estimate of costs submitted by a contractor to a prospective client; tender
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stock exchange registration granted to a company or governmental body, enabling the shares and other securities of the company or body to be officially listed and traded
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printing a large block of type metal that is less than type-high and is used to fill up spaces in type pages
Other Word Forms
- prequotation noun
- self-quotation noun
Etymology
Origin of quotation
1525–35; 1810–15 quotation for def. 3; < Medieval Latin quotātiōn- (stem of quotātiō ), equivalent to quotāt ( us ) (past participle of quotāre; quote ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Fennell has already addressed this, noting that her film is stylized with quotation marks around the title because it’s her own vision of the book, inspired by how she imagined it as a teenager.
From Salon
The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.
Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that, in the film’s poster and its trailers, the title was bookended by quotation marks.
From Salon
“All of a sudden, I was given a press release with a quotation by myself written in it, and asked to just agree to it,” Pazdur said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
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