recommend
To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
Example
“The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.”
Other meanings
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
“A city that has much to recommend it.”
To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
“The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.”
Related words
- auto-recommend
- misrecommend
- recommendary
- recommendative
- recommendee
- rerecommend
- unrecommend
- recommendable
- recommendatory
- recommended
- recommender
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "re-".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “recommend” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.