reputation

plural reputations

1. countableuncountableWhat somebody or something is known for.

   The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details.

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   And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.

   1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] , Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117

   Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

   1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12

   The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.

   2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: name, character, charctersavour, face, standing, stock