quotation
From Wiktionary
quotation is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.
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- (countable) A quotation is somebody's exact words used by somebody else.
- This chapter began with a quotation from Monica Furlong.
- Consider the following quotation from the Bible: Job 16:18: "O earth, cover not thou my blood."
- (uncountable) Quotation is the act of using somebody else's exact words.
- (commerce); (countable) A quotation is a report of the cost or value of something.

