An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
RECOMMENDATION
recommendation, passport
(noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; “her pleasant personality is already a recommendation”; “his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society”
recommendation
(noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable
recommendation, testimonial, good word
(noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
recommendation (countable and uncountable, plural recommendations)
An act of recommending.
That which is recommended.
A commendation or endorsement.
A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)
Synonyms
• See also advice
Source: Wiktionary
Rec`om*men*da"tion (rk`m*mn*d"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. recommandation.]
1. The act of recommending.
2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.
3. The state of being recommended; esteem. [R.] The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient. Sir T. North.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCHNORR
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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