- quote
- I UK [kwəʊt] / US [kwoʊt]
verb
Word forms "quote":
present tense I/you/we/they quote he/she/it quotes present participle quoting past tense quoted past participle quoted
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1) [intransitive/transitive] to say or write words that someone else has said or writtenquote from:Can I quote you on that (= repeat exactly what you have said about something)?
quote someone as saying something:She claimed to be quoting from an official report.
The minister was quoted as saying that he didn't care about jobs.
2) [transitive] to give something as an example to support what you are sayingHe quoted the example of a 40-year-old man who has been waiting nearly two years for an operation.
3) [transitive] to tell someone what price you would charge them to do a particular piece of workquote for:quote someone something:How much did they quote for the job?
They quoted us £500 to replace the whole window.
•quote ... unquote
— spoken if someone says "quote" before a word or phrase, they are showing that they are repeating someone's words exactly, and they often say "unquote" at the endHe said he was, quote, sick and tired of it, unquote.
II UK [kwəʊt] / US [kwoʊt] noun [countable]
Word forms "quote":
singular quote plural quotes
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1) a quotation from a book, play, speech etcquote from:a quote from Shakespeare
2) the price that someone says they will charge you for doing a particular piece of workquote for:Can you give us a quote for the whole job?
3) quotes[plural] informal quotation marks
English dictionary. 2014.