1 [+writer, line, passage, source] citar borrow words from (cite)
to quote Dante: "abandon all hope you who enter here"
to quote my aunt ... para citar a mi tía ...; como decía mi tía ...
to quote my old French teacher: "there's no communication without grammar"
you can quote me puedes decir que te lo he dicho yo; don't quote me on that no te lo puedo decir a ciencia cierta
but don't quote me he can quote Shakespeare all day long he quoted the line from "Rule Britannia": "Britons never, never shall be slaves" the passage is worth quoting in full Note that in the long passage quoted above, Keynes was describing two very different sorts of inflationary evil Foucault quotes only a few words from Montaigne's essay he quoted Góngora quoting Churchill, he said ... After quoting the Scriptures, Pericles and Winston Churchill, he said: "America is in trouble" yesterday the Belgian newspaper Le Soir quoted a professor who said he witnessed the killings the report quotes informed sources in Beirut quoting an unnamed source, the newspaper says ... she quoted a line from a book by Peter Vaughan to quote sb [as] saying ...
he is quoted as saying that ... se le atribuye haber dicho que ...
he has often been quoted as saying that people should concentrate on what they do best
2 (mention) [+example] dar; citar; [+reference number] indicar please quote this reference in any communication can you quote me an example? the most quoted example of this situation is East Africa it isn't unusual to hear people say that families are not that important, we can get by without them - /people quote the example of successful single parents/ let me quote another example Mr Meacher quoted statistics saying that the standard of living of the poorest people had fallen
to quote sth/sb as an example (of sth) poner algo/a algn como ejemplo (de algo)
Rolls Royce Motors have already been quoted as an example of a high price/low volume company
3 (Comm) (estimate) he quoted/I was quoted a good price me dio un presupuesto precio muy razonable;or
he wouldn't quote a specific sum he was quoted a very reasonable price they quoted me £830 to fit the kitchen
4 (Economics) [+shares, company, currency] cotizar;at a last night, Hunt shares were quoted at 346 pence anoche las acciones Hunt cotizaron a 346 peniques; it is not quoted on the Stock Exchange no se cotiza en la Bolsa
in early trading gold was quoted at 368.20 dollars an ounce
quoted company empresa que cotiza en Bolsa; (f)
investment trusts are publicly quoted companies whose business is to invest in the shares of other companies the building society is thinking of converting into a publicly quoted company
