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Definitions in simple English

quotation Noun

— Quotation is the act of using somebody else's exact words. — A quotation is a report of the cost or value of something.

quotation

— noun (= quote) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited — noun (= citation, acknowledgment, mention) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage the student's essay failed to list several important citations the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book the article includes mention of similar clinical cases — noun a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity — noun the practice of quoting from books or plays etc since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation

Synonyms quotation synonyms

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quotation English » English

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Topics quotation topics

What do people use quotation to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Story

Saying, proverb

What words refer to a saying taken from a book or movie?

quotation

Examples quotation examples

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Simple sentences

The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.

In future I'd prefer to avoid sentences with quotation marks. That'll be better for the sentences and for me.

The quotation marks are superfluous.

It seems to me better without the quotation marks.

Movie subtitles

That isn't a quotation.

We're ready to listen to the current quotation on blackmail.

You know the quotation. Emerson.

I hope the rest ofthe quotation comes true.

As a scientist, you should be familiar with that quotation.

And this is for quotation?

Are you familiar with the latest raw sugar market quotation?

Did you like my quotation?

Listen, get me a quotation for gold on the Paris market.

My favorite quotation is by Mark Twain.

Is that a quotation or a question?

A quotation. I saw her twice as Lady Macbeth in London.

Beautiful quotation.

That is one quotation I'll remember.

This morning I referred to a quotation, remember?

From Shakespeare. I spoke a quotation?

I spoke a quotation.

You know the quotation.

Yes, sir. I know the quotation, sir.

Open quotation marks.

End of quotation.

That's a quotation, isn't it?

And the alleged quotation from scriptures, that's all very interesting, sir.

Which brings to mind a famous old quotation.

Oh, is that another quotation from the works of the Marquise de Sade?

Every book starts with a quotation.

Another quotation?

This is not a quotation. My original words.

Worthy of quotation.

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

He's been working on this Links quotation for weeks.

So I told him we're going to send our top salesman to do a new quotation and this time, by God, it'll tally with the estimate.

Well, his quotation from Shakespeare was incorrect.

Just after the war, I found a framed quotation on my father's desk.

Question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks brackets, parentheses, braces and ellipses.

I was hoping you could provide a quotation to help alleviate my guilt.

Like hanging out with a real person, rather than a hipness quotation.

Sorry, it's a quotation.

Extermination of the weaker guarantees survival of the stronger, just like in the animal world. Which Martin Luther's quotation fits here?

A quotation.

News and current affairs

A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy's was speaking a half-century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.

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