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Quoted Quote Written Repeat Mr Price Polay Peace

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If you q____ someone as saying something, you repeat what they have written or said .If you quote someone as saying something, you repeat what they have written or said .
He quoted Mr Polay as saying that peace negotiations were already underway.
She quoted a great line from a book by Romain Gary.
The newspaper quoted a professor who said he witnessed the killings.
I gave the letter to our local press and they quoted from it.
word quote
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verb
If you quote someone as saying something, you repeat what they have written or said .
He quoted Mr Polay as saying that peace negotiations were already underway.
She quoted a great line from a book by Romain Gary.
The newspaper quoted a professor who said he witnessed the killings.
I gave the letter to our local press and they quoted from it.
If you quote something such as a law or a fact, you state it because it supports what you are saying.
Mr Meacher quoted statistics saying that the standard of living of the poorest people had fallen.
If someone quotes a price for doing something, they say how much money they would charge you for a service they are offering or a for a job that you want them to do.
A travel agent quoted her £160 for the flight.
He quoted a price for the repairs.
If a company's shares, a substance, or a currency is quoted at a particular price, that is its current market price.
In early trading, gold was quoted at $368.20 an ounce.
Heron is a private company and is not quoted on the Stock Market.
noun
A quote from a book, poem, play, or speech is a passage or phrase from it.
The article starts with a quote from an unnamed member of the Cabinet.
A quote for a piece of work is the price that someone says they will charge you to do the work.
Always get a written quote for any repairs needed.
Quotes are the same as quotation marks .
The word 'remembered' is in quotes.
other
convention
You can say ' quote ' to show that you are about to quote someone's words.
He predicts they will have, quote, 'an awful lot of explaining to do'.
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