quotation

  1. Noun.  A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.
  2. Noun.  The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.

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