quotation : Idioms & Phrases


direct quotation

  • noun a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")
    direct discourse.
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national association of securities dealers automated quotations

  • noun a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter
    NASDAQ.
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quotation mark

  • noun a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
    quotation mark; quote; inverted comma.
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Quotation marks

  • noun a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
    quotation mark; quote; inverted comma.
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  • (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.
Webster 1913