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rec'd

rec'd is the abbreviation of recommended.

rec'd is the abbreviation of received.

Meaning of recommended

Adjective

recommended (comparative more recommended, superlative most recommended)

  1. That one recommends (often by a person, community, or authoritative body).
    • recommended daily allowance

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Meaning of received

Adjective

received (not comparable)

  1. Generally accepted as correct or true.
    • And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about rec'd

What is rec'd the abbreviation of?
Rec'd is the abbreviation of recommended.

Words near rec'd in the dictionary

  1. rec halls
  2. rec league
  3. rec leagues
  4. rec room
  5. rec rooms
  6. rec'd
  7. rec'ed
  8. rec'ing
  9. rec.
  10. rec.gamer
  11. rec.gamers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rec'd (page history and authors); recommended (page history and authors); received (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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