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Recommendation

noun

Something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable.

Something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. Synonyms: good word, testimonial.

Any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission. Synonym: passport. "His wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"

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... Republics—Plantations of cacao were speedily multiplied in Colombia, and the soil so admirably seconded the labors of the planter, that in the produce abundance was united to excellence. The cacao of this quarter ranks next to that of Soconusco. It is well known that the best commercial recommendation of cacao is that of coming from Caracas. But even in these provinces the quality varies. The cacao of Orituco is superior to that of other places, and a quantity of equal bulk weighs twenty per cent. more. The cacao of the ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... Developing Solution.—The REV. MR. SISSON, in a letter I received from him a few days ago, stated that he had been trying, at the recommendation of a gentleman who had written to him upon the subject, a stronger developing solution than that the formula for which he published some time back in your pages, and that it gave splendid positive pictures with very short exposure ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 • Various

... me into the saloon where I sat down to write a letter of recommendation for him to a ...

— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad

... don't over-work," was her recommendation. "There's such a thing as bending a bow until it breaks. I don't like to see ...

— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

... European governments proceeded to fan the flames— encouraged Spain to resent the fancied affront by assuring her that she would not lack powerful allies. There was no recognition by this government of Cuban independence; no recommendation that we wrest the island from the moribund nation that has so long misgoverned it; but a semi-official expression of concern for men striving to achieve their liberty afforded Europe a pretext to "get together" and work off on a distant people that war spirit, so long ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

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