recommendation
//ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- recommendations
Definitions
1.An act of recommending.
2.That which is recommended.
3.A commendation or endorsement.
- Your next employer may require a recommendation.
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)
- We followed the recommendation to order sushi.
- He made a recommendation about what food to order.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2738
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio.
By surface analysis, recommend + -ation.