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Quotation

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Noun

1. acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

Example Sentences:
'the student's essay failed to list several important citations'
'the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book'
'the article includes mention of similar clinical cases'

2. citation, quotation, quote

a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

3. quotation

a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

4. quotation

the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.

Example Sentences:
'since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quotation

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noun
1. 
a phrase or passage from a book, poem, play, etc, remembered and spoken, esp to illustrate succinctly or support a point or an argument
2. 
the act or habit of quoting from books, plays, poems, etc
3. business
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
4. 
an estimate of costs submitted by a contractor to a prospective client; tender
5. 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
6. printing
a large block of type metal that is less than type-high and is used to fill up spaces in type pages

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Quotation

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noun
1. 
the act or practice of quoting
2. 
the words or passage quoted
3.  Business
a. 
the current quoted price of a stock, bond, commodity, etc.
b. 
a document containing such a price or prices, usually an offer to sell that which is quoted

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quotation

see synonyms of quotation
n.
1. The act of quoting.
2. A passage quoted.
3. An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work: "Direct quotations from other paintings are fairly sparse" (Robert Hughes).
4.
a. The quoting of current prices and bids for securities and goods.
b. The prices or bids cited.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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