recommending

Verb

recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)

1. (transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
   • The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.

   Synonyms:

   commend

2. (transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
   • A city that has much to recommend it.
3. (transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
   • The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
4. (archaic, transitive) To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.
   • A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

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