{
    "term": "quote",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "quote",
            "heSheIt": "quotes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "quoted",
        "pastParticiple": "quoted",
        "ingForm": "quoting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written",
            "sensetop": "quote somethingquote something from somethingquote from somethingquote somebody/something in somethingquote somebodyquote somebody as doing somethingquote somebody on somethingquote + speech",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to quote Shakespeare",
                    "contextForm": "quote something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.",
                    "contextForm": "quote something from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They quoted from the Bible.",
                    "contextForm": "quote from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Quote this reference number in all correspondence.",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody/something in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was widely quoted in the American media."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jude is one of three people **quoted in the story**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **quote an expert/an official/a source**",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The minister claimed he had been selectively quoted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The President was **quoted** in the press **as saying** that he disagreed with the decision.",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody as doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘**Can I quote you on that?**’",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Don't quote me on this** *(= this is not an official statement)*, but I think he is going to resign."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.",
                    "contextForm": "quote + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She quotes extensively from the author's diaries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They said they were quoting from a recent report."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The passage is quoted in full."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Language"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["at length", "extensively", "in full"],
                "preposition": ["as", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to mention an example of something to support what you are saying",
            "sensetop": "quote (somebody) somethingquote something as something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?",
                    "contextForm": "quote (somebody) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement",
                    "contextForm": "quote something as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the most widely quoted and influential study in this field"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["frequently", "often"],
                "preposition": ["as", "on"],
                "phrases": ["widely quoted"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product",
            "sensetop": "quote somethingquote something for (doing) somethingquote somebody somethingquote somebody something for (doing) something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The agent is quoting a guide price of €250 000.",
                    "contextForm": "quote something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The price they quoted for the kitchen was too high.",
                    "contextForm": "quote something for (doing) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A garage quoted him £80.",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.",
                    "contextForm": "quote somebody something for (doing) something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money",
            "sensetop": "quote something (at something)",
            "labels": "(finance)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to give the prices for a business company’s shares on a stock exchange",
            "sensetop": "quote something",
            "labels": "(finance)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange."
                },
                {
                    "text": "publicly quoted companies"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by somebody else",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret."
                },
                {
                    "text": "now that the, quote, unquote, ‘real story’ has begun"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kwəʊt/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quote__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kwəʊts/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quotes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪd/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quoted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quoting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kwəʊt/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quote__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kwəʊts/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quotes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪd/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quoted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "qu/quote/quoting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from medieval Latin quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota. The original sense was ‘mark a book with numbers, or with marginal references’, later ‘give a reference by page or chapter’, hence ‘cite a text or person’ (late 16th cent.)."
}