indirect quotations

A form of indirect quotation — An utterance in which one person states what someone else said, but framed as an object within a larger clause without quotation marks (when in written form) and sometimes, but not necessarily, repeating their exact words verbatim.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of indirect quotation
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