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Recommendation

noun

Something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable.

Something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. Synonyms: good word, testimonial.

Any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission. Synonym: passport. "His wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"

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"Recommendation" Quotes from Famous Books

... first business was to look up Alf Slade, agent of the Pony Express line, whose headquarters were at Horseshoe Station, twenty miles from the fort. He carried a letter of recommendation from Mr. Russell, but ...

— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore

... fatal at a mile and a half. But he said the auxiliary verb AVERE, TO HAVE, was a tidy thing, and easy to handle in a seaway, and less likely to miss stays in going about than some of the others; so, upon his recommendation I chose that one, and told him to take it along and scrape its bottom and break out its spinnaker and get it ...

— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain

... Brompton, a school kept by a lady of the name of Vincent. It was Mrs. Vincent's strong recommendation that induced me to receive Miss Graham into my family without any more special knowledge of ...

— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

... recommendation so offensive," was the answer, delivered in the same pure key, with the same clear look. "I reject counsel poisoned by insinuation. It is my right to speak as I think proper; nothing binds me to converse as you dictate. So far from always speaking as I have done just now, I shall ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... me from my embarrassing situation, I deem it needful to form a connection with some influential person or family, whose recommendation and protection will secure me from harm, and restore me to the bosom of that society from whose enjoyments and privileges I severed myself by a rash act, committed in an hour of passion, and followed up by a strange course ...

— Ellen Walton - The Villain and His Victims • Alvin Addison

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