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quote/kwəʊt/

▶verb

1 repeat or copy out (a passage from a text or speech by another).
■ repeat a passage or statement from.

2 (quote someone/thing as) put forward or describe someone or something as being.

3 give someone (an estimated price).
■ (quote someone/thing at/as) name someone or something at (specified odds).

4 Stock Exchange give (a company) a listing on a stock exchange.

▶noun

1 a quotation.

2 (quotes) quotation marks.

– phrases
quote —— unquote informal used parenthetically to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation.

– origin 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).

'quote' also found in these Oxford entries:

cite - misquote - pull quote - quotation

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