quote
/kwəʊt/ verbDefinition
REPEAT [I, T] › to repeat what someone has said or written: I was quoting from Marx. Witnesses were quoted as saying there were two gunmen.
GIVE EXAMPLE [T] › to give a fact or example in order to support what you are saying: The minister quoted recent unemployment figures.
COST [T] › to say how much a piece of work will cost before you do it
(Definition of quote verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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