quote meaning
- Repeat a passage from
"He quoted the Bible to her"
- cite - Name the price of
"quote prices for cars" - Refer to for illustration or proof
"He said he could quote several instances of this behaviour"
- cite - Put quote marks around
"Here the author is quoting his colleague"
- A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
- quotation mark, inverted comma [Brit] - A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- quotation, citation
Derived forms: quoting, quoted, quotes
Type of: advert, bring up, cite, excerpt, excerption, extract, give, ingeminate, iterate, mark, mention, name, punctuate, punctuation, punctuation mark, refer, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, selection
Encyclopedia: Quote Quote, Unquote
[Business]
AmE / verb, noun
■ verb [+ obj]
1 (Commerce ) quote sb sth
to tell a customer how much you will charge them for a job, service or product:
We were quoted a price of $9 a metre for 50 000 metres of material.
2 (Stock Exchange )
to record the name of a company on a stock exchange so that its shares can be bought and sold:
The company is quoted on the New York stock exchange.
3 (Finance )
to give the price of a share on a stock exchange or a currency:
Traders quoted the securities at about 70 cents on the dollar.
The euro was quoted at $1.00031.
■ noun [C]
(Commerce )
a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost:
The first quote you get is rarely the most competitive.
WHICH WORD?
quote/estimate/quotation
Before asking someone to do a piece of work, for example to repair a vehicle, it is usual to ask them to tell you how much they expect it to cost. They do this by giving you a written estimate or a quotation/quote.
A person giving a quotation/quote often agrees to limit their fee to the amount stated in it.
A person giving an estimate usually keeps the right to change their price if circumstances change, for example if the price of parts rises or the work takes longer than expected.
[Finance]
1. The last price at which a security or commodity traded, meaning the most recent price on which a buyer and seller agreed and at which some amount of the asset was transacted.
[Computer]
To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate bible. "I don't care if "rn" gets it wrong; "Followup-To: poster" is explicitly permitted by RFC 1036. I'll quote chapter and verse if you don't believe me." See also legalese, language lawyer, RTFS (sense 2).
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- back quote: [Computer]<char ...
- basis quote: [Finance]A method ...
Examples
More: Next- index all the quoted names in a book.
- please quote our reference when replying.
- i asked zeitzler not to quote this.
- this is often quoted above of 67% probability.
- he quoted figures to prove his case.
