0 the opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character:
1 the general opinion that people have about someone or something:
2 the opinion that people have of someone or something, based on past behaviour or character:
The bank's professional reputation was badly damaged by the affair.
have a good/bad reputation He had a very good reputation in the industry.
have a reputation as sth She has a reputation as a tough negotiator.
have a reputation for (doing) sth The company has a reputation for excellent customer care.
3 to know someone or something because of what people say about them, rather than by having direct experience of them:
He knew Hindman by reputation before interviewing him for the post.
Recent discoveries about corruption have done serious damage to the company's reputation.
The government's reputation has already been harmed by a series of scandals.
The newspaper has a reputation for being littered with spelling mistakes.
She has a reputation for open-mindedness and original thinking.
Actors' reputations have been made and unmade on this London stage.
Once elected, senators had to develop reputations that translated into support among party organization regulars as well as directly among their constituents.
From an elder's point of view, even infrequent contacts and instrumental support from distant children affirmed their familial bonds and reputations in the community.
Householders in more egalitarian ' stateless ' societies had to build up their reputations by hand, establishing prosperous homesteads and defending their reputations against other people's slurs.
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