Other forms: recommendations
A recommendation is advice that somebody or something is worth choosing. A strong recommendation, on his recommendation, the report's recommendations.
In a report they are the part anybody reads, and the useful ones name who must do what by when. A letter of recommendation carries most weight when the writer knows the work rather than the person. The Latin means to commit to somebody's care.
1nounrecommendationAdvice that somebody or something is worth choosing.
“We chose this hotel on a friend's recommendation.”
recommendation is advice.
Medieval Latin recommendatio comes from recommendare, to commit to another's care, from com- plus mandare, to entrust.
Medieval Latin
recommendatio
Anglo-Norman
recomendacion
Middle English
recommendacioun
English, today
recommendation
From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio. by surface analysis, recommend + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA