to quote

Examples

• All

• I was wondering if you could quote me for some carpets.

  Calendar Girls (2003)

• But I did find a guy who quoted me $4,800.

  Day Shift (2022)

• - Can we quote you on that?

  The Detective (1968)

• You may quote us the same.

  Five Came Back (1939)

• When last we met, I quoted you $20 on these.

  Young Doctors in Love (1982)

• Just go to geico.com, get a quote and see how much you can save.

• I quoted you for a 20 when it's a 40-footer.

  The Gentlemen (2020)

• "Our engineering process starts when we quote a job for a customer," said Bruce Baillie, CAD/CAM manager at Teledyne.

  Academic text (1995)

• Just go to geico.com, get a quote and see how much you can save.

• For engine repairs, Hartshorn may have to offer a quoted price just for initial diagnostic work.

Synonyms

P

to price

vsto quote

46 1.4

To check how much something costs

states a specific cost or offer rather than finding out how much something costs

Idioms

Q

quote unquote

• Informal

6 7.7

To show a word someone else said or that you doubt it

Phrasal Verbs

P

to pull quote

• Literature

1 4.6

To take a short line from a text and show it separately to get attention

S

to scare quote

• Literature

8.2

To put quotation marks around a word to show doubt or irony

Compounds

F

famous quote

6 2.5

A saying that many people know and repeat

P

pull quote

• Literature

1 4.1

A short quotation from an article shown separately to draw attention

S

scare quote

• Literature

1 7.7

Quotation marks put around a word to show doubt or irony

R

rent-a-quote

• Offensive

9.9

A person the media often asks to give short predictable comments

S

single quote

3.4

A punctuation mark like an apostrophe used to show speech or a quote inside another quote

How Formal

tender

• UK

8 7.2

bid

232 2.7

estimate

133 2.8

to quote

68 3.5

ballpark

• Informal

38 4.3

Surface Forms

Etymology