0 past simple and past participle of quote
1 to repeat the words that someone else has said or written:
He's always quoting from the Bible.
"If they're flexible, we're flexible", the official was quoted as saying.
She worked, to quote her daughter, "as if there were no tomorrow".
Can I quote you on that (= can I repeat to other people what you have just said)?
[ + two objects ] Quote me one organization that doesn't have some bad managers.
2 to give a price, especially one that will be charged for doing a piece of work:
In all future letters on this subject, please quote our reference JW/155/C/1991.
I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report.
At the beginning of his speech he quoted a line from 'Macbeth'.
This is the truth that the visual scientists, quoted in section 1 of the target article, are after, though they misstate the point.
Where calculation of these statistics is not possible, the results are quoted as they appear in the publication.
One passage was especially widely quoted in the media.
