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quote(verb)/kwəʊt/ /kwəʊt/Verb Forms- to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written
SEE ALSO misquote
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/misquote - to quote Shakespeare
- He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.
- They quoted from the Bible.
- Quote this reference number in all correspondence.
- He was widely quoted in the American media.
- The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain.
- Jude is one of three people quoted in the story.
- to quote an expert/an official/a source
- The minister claimed he had been selectively quoted.
- The President was quoted in the press as saying that he disagreed with the decision.
- She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’
- ‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘Can I quote you on that?’
- Don't quote me on this (= this is not an official statement), but I think he is going to resign.
- ‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.
Extra Examples- She quotes extensively from the author's diaries.
- They said they were quoting from a recent report.
- The passage is quoted in full.
- He is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’
- to mention an example of something to support what you are saying
- Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
- an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement
Extra Examples- He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire.
- the most widely quoted and influential study in this field
- to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product
- The agent is quoting a guide price of €250 000.
- The price they quoted for the kitchen was too high.
- A garage quoted him £80.
- They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.
- to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money
- Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday.
- to give the prices for a business company’s shares on a stock exchange
- Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange.
- publicly quoted companies
- used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by somebody else
- It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret.
- now that the, quote, unquote, ‘real story’ has begun
Word Origin- late Middle English: from medieval Latin quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota. The original sense was ‘mark a book with numbers, or with marginal references’, later ‘give a reference by page or chapter’, hence ‘cite a text or person’ (late 16th cent.).
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