Recommendation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recommendation \Rec`om*men*da"tion\ (r?k`?m*m?n*d?"sh?n), n.
     [Cf. F. recommandation.]
     1. The act of recommending.
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     2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything


        procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception,
        or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought
        excellent recommendations.
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     3. The state of being recommended; esteem. [R.]
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              The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had
              in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the
              ancient.                              --Sir T.
                                                    North.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recommendation
       n 1: something (as a course of action) that is recommeended as
            advisable
       2: something that recommends (or expresses commendation) of a
          person or thing as worthy or desirable [syn: {testimonial},
           {good word}]
       3: any quality or characteristic that gains a person a
          favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her
          pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his
          wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of
          society" [syn: {passport}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "recommendation":
     advice, advocacy, approbation, approval, backing, blessing,
     character, commendation, counsel, direction, encouragement,
     endorsement, exhortation, good word, guidance, praise, promotion,
     prompting, proposal, reference, say-so, suggestion, support,
     testimonial, urging
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RECOMMENDATION. The giving to a person a favorable character of another. 
       2. When the party giving the character has acted in good faith, he is 
  not responsible for the injury which a third person, to whom such 
  recommendation was given, may have, sustained in consequence of it, although 
  he was mistaken. 
       3. But when the recommendation is knowingly untrue, and an injury is 
  sustained, the party recommending is civilly responsible for damages; 3 T. 
  R. 51; 7 Cranch, 69; 14 Wend. 126; 7 Wend. 1; 6 Penn. St. R. 310 whether it 
  was done merely for the purpose of benefitting the party recommended, or the 
  party who gives the recommendation. 
       4. And in case the party recommended was a debtor to the one 
  recommending, and it was agreed prior to the transaction, that the former 
  should, out of the property to be obtained by the recommendation, be paid; 
  or in case of any other species of collusion, to cheat the person to whom 
  the credit is given, they may both be criminally prosecuted for the 
  conspiracy. Vide Character, and Fell on Guar. ch. 8; 6 Johns. R. 181; 1 
  Davis Ca. Er. 22; 13 Johns. R. 224; 5 N. S. 443.