recommendation

English

Etymology

From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)

1. An act of recommending.
2. That which is recommended.
   • 2020 June 2, Aisha Salaudeen, “Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of Covid-19”, in CNN‎:

     Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.

   • 2025 April 16, Brenda Goodman, “CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations”, in CNN‎:

     The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.

3. A commendation or endorsement.

   Your next employer may require a recommendation.

4. A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)

   He made a recommendation about what food to order.

   We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

• letter of recommendation
• self-praise is no recommendation

Translations

act of recommending

Albanian: rekomandim (sq) m Arabic: تَوْصِيَة f (tawṣiya) Armenian: հանձնարարում (hy) (hanjnararum), առաջարկում (hy) (aṙaǰarkum), խորհրդատվություն (hy) (xorhrdatvutʻyun) Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az) Belarusian: рэкаменда́цыя f (rekamjendácyja), рэкамэнда́цыя f (rekamendácyja) Bengali: সুপারিশ (bn) (śupariś) Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka), рекоменда́ция (bg) f (rekomendácija) Catalan: recomanació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 建議 / 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告 / 劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦 / 推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn) Crimean Tatar: tevsiye Czech: doporučení (cs) n Danish: anbefaling (da) c Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f Estonian: soovitus Finnish: suositteleminen (fi) French: recommandation (fr) f Georgian: რეკომენდაცია (reḳomendacia) German: Empfehlung (de) f Greek: σύσταση (el) f (sýstasi) Hebrew: הַמְלָצָה f (hamlatsá) Hindi: सिफ़ारिश f (sifāriś) Hungarian: ajánlás (hu) Indonesian: rekomendasi (id), saran (id) Italian: suggerimento (it) m, consiglio (it) m, proposta (it) f Japanese: 勧告 (ja) (かんこく, kankoku), 推薦 (ja) (すいせん, suisen), 薦め (すすめ, susume), 薦挙 (ja) (せんきょ, senkyo) Kazakh: ұсыныс (ūsynys) Korean: 권고(勸告) (ko) (gwon'go), 추천(推薦) (ko) (chucheon), 천거(薦擧) (ko) (cheon'geo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: tewsiye (ku) Kyrgyz: рекомендация (rekomendatsiya), сунуш (ky) (sunuş) Latvian: ieteikums m Lithuanian: rekomendacija f, patarimas m Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka) Malay: sokongan (ms), pengesyoran Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa) Maori: marohitanga Middle English: recommendacioun Mongolian: Cyrillic: зөвлөгөө (mn) (zövlögöö), зөвлөмж (mn) (zövlömž) Norwegian: Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f Pashto: توصيه (ps) f (tawsiya) Persian: Dari: تَوْصِیَه (fa) (tawsiya), سِفَارِش (fa) (sifāriš) Iranian Persian: تُوْصِیِه (fa) (towsiye), سِفارِش (fa) (sefâreš) Polish: rekomendacja (pl) f Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f Romanian: recomandare (ro) f Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пре̏порука f Roman: prȅporuka (sh) f Slovak: odporúčanie n Slovene: priporočilo n Spanish: recomendación (es) Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c Tagalog: rekomendasyon Tajik: тавсия (tavsiya), сифориш (siforiš) Turkish: tavsiye (tr) Turkmen: rekomendasiýa Ukrainian: рекоменда́ція f (rekomendácija) Urdu: شَفاعَت f (śafā'at), سِفارِش f (sifāriś) Uyghur: تەۋسىيە (tewsiye) Uzbek: rekomendatsiya (uz), tavsiya (uz) Vietnamese: sự giới thiệu (vi), sự tiến cử (vi)

that which is recommended

Armenian: հանձնարարական (hy) (hanjnararakan), դիտարկում (hy) (ditarkum), խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd), առաջարկ (hy) (aṙaǰark) Azerbaijani: tövsiyə (az), məsləhət (az) Bulgarian: препоръ́ка (bg) f (preporǎ́ka) Catalan: recomanació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 建議 / 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告 / 劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦 / 推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn) Czech: doporučení (cs) n Danish: anbefaling (da) c Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f, aanrader (nl) m Finnish: suositus (fi) French: recommandation (fr) German: Empfehlung (de) f Hungarian: ajánlat (hu) Indonesian: saran (id), rekomendasi (id) Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka) Malay: syor Malayalam: ശുപാർശ (śupāṟśa) Maori: kupu whakatau Norwegian: Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f Polish: zalecenie (pl) n, polecenie (pl) n, rekomendacja (pl) f Portuguese: recomendação (pt) Spanish: recomendación (es) Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c Tagalog: rekomendasyon Turkish: tavsiye (tr) Vietnamese: thứ được giới thiệu

a commendation or endorsement

Armenian: երաշխավորագիր (hy) (erašxavoragir) Azerbaijani: zəmanət (az) Norwegian: Bokmål: anbefaling (no) m or f Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija)

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French: (please verify) recommandation (fr) f Norwegian: Nynorsk: (please verify) anbefaling f Romanian: (please verify) recomandare (ro) f Spanish: (please verify) recomendación (es) f

See also

• recommend