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{
"term": "quotation",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a group of words or a short piece of writing taken from a book, play, speech, etc. and repeated because it is interesting or useful",
"sensetop": "quotation from something",
"labels": "(rather formal)rather informal",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a dictionary of quotations"
},
{
"text": "Two short quotations will illustrate my point."
},
{
"text": "The book began with a quotation from Goethe.",
"contextForm": "quotation from something"
},
{
"text": "a direct quotation from a recent speech by the president"
},
{
"text": "It's a quotation from a poem by Keats."
},
{
"text": "My quotation is taken from ‘Hamlet’."
},
{
"text": "Where does that quotation come from?"
}
],
"topics": ["Literature and writing"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["famous", "memorable", "direct"],
"verb + quotation": ["take", "attribute", "cite"],
"quotation + verb": ["come from something"],
"quotation + noun": ["marks"],
"preposition": ["quotation from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the act of repeating something interesting or useful that another person has written or said",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The writer illustrates his point by quotation from a number of sources."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost",
"labels": "(rather formal)rather informal",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You need to get a written quotation before they start work."
},
{
"text": "We’ll give you a free quotation for replacing your windows."
}
],
"synonyms": "estimate",
"topics": ["Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["written", "free", "detailed"],
"verb + quotation": [
"give (somebody)",
"provide (somebody with)",
"supply (somebody with)"
],
"preposition": ["quotation for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a statement of the current value of goods or shares",
"labels": "(finance)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the latest quotations from the Stock Exchange"
},
{
"text": "It was the first football club to have a full stock market quotation."
}
],
"topics": ["Money"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kwəʊˈteɪʃn/",
"audio": "qu/quotation/quotation__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kwəʊˈteɪʃn/",
"audio": "qu/quotation/quotation__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (denoting a marginal reference to a passage of text): from medieval Latin quotatio(n-), from the verb quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota."
}