recommended

recommend | American Dictionary

recommend
verb[ T ]
us/ˌrek·əˈmend/
to suggest that someone or something would be good or suitable for a particular job or purpose, or to suggest that a particular action should be done:
Can you recommend a hotel in San Francisco?
[ + that clause ]I recommend that you go on a diet.

recommend | Business English

recommend
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌrekəˈmend/us
to advise someone to do something:
recommend that sb do sthMost financial advisers recommend that you buy individual life insurance, at least as a supplement.
We recommend changing your internet provider.
The board will recommend the offer to shareholders.
to suggest that something is the best thing to choose:
They've recommended some software to help with the planning process.
Can you recommend a good restaurant in this area?
recommend sth to sbThis is the package that we recommend to most clients.
to suggest that someone is the best person to do a job:
I can recommend several candidates.
recommend sb to sthThis is the package that we recommend to most clients.

Examples of recommend

recommend
When such inhibition is a reaction to the injury by a mental protective state, he recommends combining the medical treatment with psychological therapy.
This reviewer will certainly be finding it useful for teaching and recommending it to students.
This is a straightforward book to review, but a rather more difficult one to recommend to readers.
In the end, this is a useful book to recommend to students as preliminary background reading.
The first risk is mistakenly recommending widespread use of the drug, when the drug is not truly effective.
Note that, in this framework, an equal distribution of income would indeed be recommended under the unlikely conditions of people having identical, concave utility functions.
A minimum period of one year is typically recommended for full-time fieldwork towards a doctoral degree.
The report recommended that, in principle, economic analysis should be pursued for all pharmaceuticals, but only simple price comparisons should be undertaken for generic medicines.
When clinical and cost-effective profiles are uncertain, then current practice is recommended.
This is surely the single greatest strength of a book that otherwise has few to recommend it.
Based on results indicating high bioavailability and a long half-life, the oral administration of brequinar was recommended on alternate days.
Reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is, therefore, to be recommended as soon after palliation as is possible.
Therefore, intercropping maize and common bean is more advantageous than sole cropping, and should be recommended especially for small-scale farmers.
While which of these alternatives he specifically recommends is not quite clear, his preferences are based on professionalism.
Then, due to relatively little evidence on what works well, a practical clinical approach is recommended, so that safety is the main consideration.
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