Quotation - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kwəʊˈteɪʃn|  American pronunciation of the word quotation
Brit.  |kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word quotation

noun

- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage (syn: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, reference)
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited (syn: citation, quote)
- a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
- the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation

Extra examples

He gathered quotations from the trial transcript to prove his point.

She relied heavily on quotation in her essays, which made them less original.

The following quotation is taken from a nineteenth century travel diary.

Ask the builder to give you a written quotation for the job.

Get a couple of quotations from different companies before you decide which one to use.

They could not identify the source of the quotation.

Each chapter in the book has a prefatory quotation.

We must ask you to excuse us from sending you a quotation.

There aren't quotation marks around the passage lifted from my work

The book is prefaced by a quotation from Faulkner.

Now you come to Shakespeare, I must cap your quotation with another. (R. Vaughan, Mystics, 1860)

Our limits will not permit us to indulge in extensive quotation.

The quotation does not even near the point in debate. (T. N. Harper)

We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare

Word forms

noun
singular: quotation
plural: quotations
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