quotation
Someone else's words
A quotation is someone's words repeated by another, usually with attribution: a quotation from Shakespeare.
The word also names the practice itself: Quotation without citation is plagiarism.
In commerce, a quotation is a stated price for goods or services: Get three quotations before hiring a contractor.
Often shortened to quote.
Assigning origin or cause
- sourcePoint of origin
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
- endnoteBack-of-book citation
bibliography · citing · excerpt · paraphrase · acknowledgment · documentation · APA · MLA
Portion taken from larger work
- passageSegment of text
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- readingInterpreting written text
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
oratory · attribution · misquotation · out of context · verbatim · word for word · direct speech · reported speech
Terse general truth
- proverbTraditional saying expressing truth
- adageTraditional pithy truth
- maximBrief moral principle
- dictumAuthoritative formal statement
epigram · axiom · truism · platitude · mot · witticism · quip · bon mot
Informed guess at quantity
- bidOffer to purchase
- tenderSoft or sore
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- invoiceItemized billing statement
pricing · cost · rate · fee · charge · RFQ · contractor · itemized
Cost per equity unit
- tickerInformal term for heart
- market priceCurrent exchange value
- spot priceCurrent trading value
- real-timeOccurring without processing delay
closing price · opening price · trading · exchange · securities · Bloomberg · Reuters
attribution
Assigning origin or cause
endnote · bibliography · citing · excerpt · paraphrase · acknowledgment · documentation · APA · MLA · Chicago
excerpt
Portion taken from larger work
- passageSegment of text
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- readingInterpreting written text
spoken word · oratory · attribution · misquotation · out of context · verbatim · word for word · direct speech · reported speech · testimony
aphorism
Terse general truth
dictum · epigram · axiom · truism · platitude · mot · witticism · quip · bon mot · soundbite
estimate
Informed guess at quantity
invoice · pricing · cost · rate · fee · charge · RFQ · contractor · itemized · ballpark
inverted commas
Punctuation enclosing quotations
share price
Cost per equity unit
- tickerInformal term for heart
- market priceCurrent exchange value
- spot priceCurrent trading value
real-time · closing price · opening price · trading · exchange · securities · Bloomberg · Reuters
- literary influenceliterary influence, imitation, inspiration, allusion, homage
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- tradingbid, buy, ask, sell, trading
- dialogueconversation, line, lines, banter, talk
- estimatesestimate, estimation, ballpark, ballpark estimate, rough estimate
quotationparaphrase
Restatement in new words
summary · rewording · gloss · interpretation · rephrasing
quotationfinal price
Amount ultimately owed
actual cost · invoice · bill · contract price
- quotation marksPunctuation framing cited text
- direct quotationExact reproduction of speech