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quot

n. countable
C2 Proficiency quot

n. a short way of writing the word 'quotation' or the symbol for quotation marks. It is mostly used in computer code or when talking about prices on a stock market.

n. a truncated form of 'quotation', referring either to the punctuation marks used to attribute speech or to a formal statement of a market price.


SIMPLE

The programmer used the quot code to display the text correctly.

CONTEXTUAL

In HTML, the entity " is used to represent a double quotation mark within a string of text.

COMPLEX

The financial analyst requested a fresh quot for the commodity before finalizing the trade, noting that the previous figure had already expired in the volatile morning session.

Usage

Primarily used as a technical abbreviation in computing (HTML entities) or as jargon in financial trading contexts.

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