different between legislate vs recommend
legislate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from legislation, legislator.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?d??s?le?t/
Verb
legislate (third-person singular simple present legislates, present participle legislating, simple past and past participle legislated)
- To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
- If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.
Derived terms
Translations
legislate From the web:
- legislate meaning
- legislate what does that mean
- what does legislate from the bench mean
- what does legislature mean
- what is legislated equality
- what is legislated morality
- what do legislators do
- what is legislated leave
recommend
English
Etymology
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commend?re.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??k??m?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- Hyphenation: rec?om?mend
Verb
recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)
- (transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- (transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
- A city that has much to recommend it.
- (transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- (transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
- A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:advise
Antonyms
- deprecate
- disrecommend
- discourage
- disapprove
- oppose
Derived terms
Related terms
- recommendation
Translations
Anagrams
- commender
Middle English
Verb
recommend
- Alternative form of recommenden
recommend From the web:
- what recommendations are made to motivate achievement
- what recommend mean
- what recommended tire pressure
- how to improve achievement motivation
- how to increase achievement motivation
- what is motivation achievement
- how to develop achievement motivation
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