1. to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
2. to repeat words from (a book, author, etc.).
3. to use a brief excerpt from: The composer quotes Beethoven's Fifth in his latest work.
4. to cite, offer, or bring forward as evidence or support.
5. to enclose (words) within quotation marks.
6. Commerce.
• to state (a price).
• to state the current price of.

7. to make a quotation or quotations, as from a book or author.
8. (used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a quotation.)

9. a quotation.
10. quotation mark.

11. so called; so to speak; as it were: If you're a liberal, quote unquote, they're suspicious of you.

1. to recite a quotation (from a book, play, poem, etc), esp as a means of illustrating or supporting a statement
2. to put quotation marks round (a word, phrase, etc)
3. to state (a current market price) of (a security or commodity)

4. an informal word for quotation (def. 1), quotation (def. 2), quotation (def. 3), quotation (def. 4)
5. (often plural) an informal word for quotation mark put it in quotes

6. an expression used parenthetically to indicate that the words that follow it form a quotation

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