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Quotation

//kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. countable

    ""Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine."

  2. 2
    the practice of quoting from books or plays etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of quoting someone or something. uncountable

    "One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible."

  4. 4
    a passage or expression that is quoted or cited wordnet
  5. 5
    A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. countable

    "Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing."

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  1. 6
    a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity wordnet
  2. 7
    The act of setting a price. uncountable
  3. 8
    a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage wordnet
  4. 9
    A quota, a share. countable, obsolete

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.

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