Quoted Quote I Passage Speech Reference Article Refer

• he quoted a passage from the minister's speech.
• to quote shakespeare
• quote this reference number in all correspondence.
• the figures quoted in this article refer only to britain.

quote

1. to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written
• see also misquote
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/misquote
• He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.
• to quote Shakespeare
• Quote this reference number in all correspondence.
• The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain.
• The President was quoted in the press as saying that he disagreed with the decision.
• ‘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.
• She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’
• ‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.
2. to mention an example of something to support what you are saying
• Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
• Nobody mentioned anything to me about it.
• I promised not to refer to the matter again.
• Witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame.
• He cited his heavy workload as the reason for his breakdown.
• Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
3. to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product
• They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.
4. to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money
• See related entries: Economy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/economy/quote
• Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday.
5. to give the prices for a business company’s shares on a stock exchange
• See related entries: Economy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/economy/quote
• Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange.
6. 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.

Extra Examples

• Don’t quote me on this but I think the figure is in excess of £2 billion.
• He quoted from Shakespeare.
• She is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’
• She quotes extensively from the author’s diaries.
• The new text of Article 92, quoted above, gives member states more discretion on this issue.
• The passage is quoted in full.
• They quoted from the Bible.
• an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement
• publicly quoted companies
• quoting from Shakespeare/‘Hamlet’
• the most widely quoted and influential study in this field
• ‘All’s fair in love and war,’ he quoted.
• ‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘Can I quote you on that?’
• Don’t quote me on this , but I think she is going to resign.
• He quoted a passage from the prime minister’s speech.
• He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire.
• They said they were quoting from a recent report.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they quote
• he / she / it quotes
• past simple quoted
• past participle quoted
• -ing form quoting

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.).