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recommend

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/

Definition of recommend

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
    “The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
    “The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.”
  2. (transitive)To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
    “A city that has much to recommend it.”
  3. (transitive)To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
    “The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.”
    “My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.”
    “An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40.”
  4. (archaic, transitive)To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.
    “A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.”

noun

  1. (colloquial)A recommendation.
    “"I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus…

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From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).

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