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Definition of "recognise" []

  • To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity. (verb)
  • To acknowledge the existence or legality of something.; treat as worthy of consideration or valid. (verb)
  • To acknowledge or consider as something. (verb)
  • To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that. (verb)
  • To give an award. (verb)

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Use "recognise" in a sentence
  • "One thing Google has to recognise is when your thinking of rolling out this across the enterprise you have to take into account the needs of all users – and right not I can imaging lots of people in sales and marketing finding gmail unusable due to threading."
  • "What Baggini also fails to recognise is that he; s part of the performance."
  • "What we have to recognise is that we have a real opportunity to cure infectious diseases in the developing world."