v.
- repeat or copy out (a passage from a text or speech by another).
▸repeat a passage or statement from.
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(quote someone/thing as)
put forward or describe someone or something as being.
- give someone (an estimated price).
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(quote someone/thing at/as)
name someone or something at (specified odds).
- Stock Exchange give (a company) a listing on a stock exchange.
n.
- a quotation.
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(quotes)
quotation marks.
Phrase
- quote —— unquote
informal used parenthetically to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation.
Etymology
ME (orig. ‘mark a book with numbers or marginal references’): from med. L. quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from med. L. quota (see quota).