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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable;

2. something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable;
[syn: recommendation, testimonial, good word]

3. any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission;
- Example: "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"
- Example: "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
[syn: recommendation, passport]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Recommendation \Rec`om*men*da"tion\ (r?k`?m*m?n*d?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. recommandation.] 1. The act of recommending. [1913 Webster] 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being recommended; esteem. [R.] [1913 Webster] The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

recommendation n 1: something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable 2: something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable [syn: recommendation, testimonial, good word] 3: any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society" [syn: recommendation, passport]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "recommendation": advice, advocacy, approbation, approval, backing, blessing, character, commendation, counsel, direction, encouragement, endorsement, exhortation, good word, guidance, praise, promotion, prompting, proposal, reference, say-so, suggestion, support, testimonial, urging
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

RECOMMENDATION. The giving to a person a favorable character of another. 2. When the party giving the character has acted in good faith, he is not responsible for the injury which a third person, to whom such recommendation was given, may have, sustained in consequence of it, although he was mistaken. 3. But when the recommendation is knowingly untrue, and an injury is sustained, the party recommending is civilly responsible for damages; 3 T. R. 51; 7 Cranch, 69; 14 Wend. 126; 7 Wend. 1; 6 Penn. St. R. 310 whether it was done merely for the purpose of benefitting the party recommended, or the party who gives the recommendation. 4. And in case the party recommended was a debtor to the one recommending, and it was agreed prior to the transaction, that the former should, out of the property to be obtained by the recommendation, be paid; or in case of any other species of collusion, to cheat the person to whom the credit is given, they may both be criminally prosecuted for the conspiracy. Vide Character, and Fell on Guar. ch. 8; 6 Johns. R. 181; 1 Davis Ca. Er. 22; 13 Johns. R. 224; 5 N. S. 443.