recommendation

plural recommendations

1. countableuncountableAn act of recommending.
2. countableuncountableThat which is recommended.

   The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.

   2025 April 16, Brenda Goodman, “CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations”, in CNN

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   Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.

   2020 June 2, Aisha Salaudeen, “Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of Covid-19”, in CNN

3. countableuncountableA commendation or endorsement.

   Your next employer may require a recommendation.

   Synonyms: testimonial

4. countableuncountableA suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)

   We followed the recommendation to order sushi.

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   He made a recommendation about what food to order.

5. Internetcountablepluraluncountableusuallyespecially YouTubeContent which is automatically recommended to a user by the suggestion algorithm of a website or app.

   Synonyms: recommended, suggested, suggestion