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quotation [ quo·ta·tion ]
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1. A group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
Out of context, a quotation from any text is meaningless.
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2. A short musical passage or visual image taken from one piece of music or work of art and used in another.
In what ways are devotional images quotations?
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3. The action of quoting from a text, speech, piece of music, or work of art.
My one criticism would be that it seems overly reliant on lots of quotation from news pieces.
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4. A formal statement setting out the estimated cost for a particular job or service.
Additionally, always pin them down to a proper quotation for their service.
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5. A price offered by a market-maker for the sale or purchase of a stock or other security.
Because the day trader needs to monitor stock prices constantly, live price quotations are essential to his or her success.
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6. A registration granted to a company enabling their shares to be officially listed and traded.
Knutsford was a tiny Manchester-based leather goods manufacturer, effectively a shell with a recently-acquired stock market quotation.
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Origin
1. Mid 16th century (denoting a marginal reference to a passage of text): from medieval Latin quotatio(n-), from the verb quotare (see quote).
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