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indirect quotation

noun

Definitions

  1. An utterance in which one person states what someone else said, but framed as an object…

    An utterance in which one person states what someone else said, but framed as an object within a larger clause without quotation marks (when in written form) and sometimes, but not necessarily, repeating their exact words verbatim.

    • She relayed his words as an indirect quotation: she said, "He told us that he wants stronger action to be taken."
    • He told us that he wants stronger action to be taken; there are no quote marks in this sentence because it contains an indirect quotation.

  2. A rate in foreign currency.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for indirect quotation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA