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verb

/kwəʊt/

present tense
I/you/we/they	quote
he/she/it	quotes
present participle	quoting
past tense	quoted
past participle	quoted

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1
[intransitive/transitive] to say or write words that someone else has said or written
Can I quote you on that (=repeat exactly what you have said about something)?
quote from:
She claimed to be quoting from an official report.
quote someone as saying something:
The minister was quoted as saying that he didn’t care about jobs.
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2
[transitive] to give something as an example to support what you are saying
He quoted the example of a 40-year-old man who has been waiting nearly two years for an operation.
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3
[transitive] to tell someone what price you would charge them to do a particular piece of work
quote for:
How much did they quote for the job?
quote someone something:
They quoted us £500 to replace the whole window.
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phrases

quote...unquote
spoken
if someone says ‘quote’ before a word or phrase, they are showing that they are repeating someone’s words exactly, and they often say ‘unquote’ at the end
He said he was, quote, sick and tired of it, unquote.
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quote unquote
spoken
used before or after a word or phrase for emphasizing that you do not agree with it or approve of it
They do it because it’s the quote unquote thing to do.
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