recommend
//ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd//
Forms
- present (v1)
- recommend
- past (v2)
- recommended
- past participle (v3)
- recommended
- present participle
- recommending
- 3rd person singular
- recommends
- Plural
- recommends
Definitions
1.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.To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
- A city that has much to recommend it.
3.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.
1.A recommendation.(colloquial)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1644
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
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 (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).