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Recommends
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
📖 Definitions of "Recommends"
- 1
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
"The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions."
- 2
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
"A city that has much to recommend it."
- 3
To advise, propose, counsel favorably
"The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body."
- 4
To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
"A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery"
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Recommends"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| commendverb | (transitive) To praise or acclaim. |
| advocateverb | (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. |
| urgeverb | (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. |
| adviceverb | Misspelling of advise. [(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.] |
| adviseverb | (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. |
| advisedverb | Informed, appraised or made aware. |
| advisesverb | (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. |
| advisingnoun | (obsolete) Advice. |
| advocated | Having been argued in favor of. |
| advocatesverb | (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. |
| called | Having been called. |
| callsverb | (heading) To reach out with one's voice. |
| commendsverb | (transitive) To praise or acclaim. |
| encouragesverb | To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. |
| favoursverb | British standard spelling of favor. |
| invitesverb | (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. |
| makesverb | (transitive) To create. |
| nominatesverb | To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office. |
| notesnoun | Acronym of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. |
| prescribesverb | (medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority). |
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