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quoting
Variant of quote
transitive verb quoted, quoting
- to reproduce or repeat a passage from or statement of: to quote Chaucer
- to reproduce or repeat (a passage from a book, a statement, etc.)
- to refer to as authority or an example; cite
- Commerce to state (a price) or state the price of (something)
- Printing to enclose in quotation marks
intransitive verb
to make a quotation, as from a book or author
noun
interjection
I shall quote: used in speech to signal the beginning of a quotation
Related Forms:
- quoter noun
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