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recommendation

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən//
  • //ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən//

An act of recommending.

noun

  1. 1

    An act of recommending.

  2. 2

    That which is recommended.

    Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.

    The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.

  3. 3

    A commendation or endorsement.

    Your next employer may require a recommendation.

  4. 4

    A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)

    He made a recommendation about what food to order.

    We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

  5. 5

    Content which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a website or app.

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio. By surface analysis, recommend + -ation.

Forms

plural
recommendations
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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