recommendation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  recommendatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)

1. An act of recommending.
2. That which is recommended.
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

Translations

act of recommending

• Catalan: recomanació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn), 推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn)

• Czech: doporučení (cs) n
• Danish: anbefaling (da) c
• Dutch: aanbeveling (nl) f
• Finnish: suositteleminen (fi)
• French: recommandation (fr) f
• German: Empfehlung (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: ajánlás (hu)
• Italian: raccomandazione (it)
• Japanese: 勧告 (ja) (かんこく, kankoku), 推薦 (ja) (すいせん, suisen), 薦め (すすめ, susume)
• Portuguese: recomendação (pt) f
• Russian: рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija)
• Spanish: recomendación (es)
• Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
• Tagalog: rekomendasyon
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

that which is recommended

• Catalan: recomanació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 推薦／推荐 (zh) (tuījiàn), 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: ajánlat (hu)
• Macedonian: препорака f (preporaka)
• Maori: kupu whakatau
• Polish: zalecenie (pl) n, polecenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: recomendação (pt)
• Spanish: recomendación (es)
• Swedish: rekommendation (sv) c
• Tagalog: rekomendasyon
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

commendation — see commendation

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} recommandation (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} raccomandazione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anbefaling c

  Nynorsk: anbefaling f

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} recomandare (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} prȅporuka (sh) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} recomendación (es) f

See also

• recommend