Meaning of reputation in English

reputation

/ˌrep.jəˈteɪ.ʃən/ us

/ˌrep.jəˈteɪ.ʃən/

the opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character:

The company has a worldwide reputation for quality.

She has the reputation of being a good doctor.

His reputation was destroyed when he was caught stealing some money.

The hotel has a bad/good reputation.

He earned/established/gained/acquired a reputation as an entertaining speaker.

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Recent discoveries about corruption have done serious damage to the company's reputation.
The government's reputation has already been harmed by a series of scandals.
The newspaper has a reputation for being littered with spelling mistakes.
She has a reputation for open-mindedness and original thinking.
Actors' reputations have been made and unmade on this London stage.

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reputation

noun [ C ]

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the general opinion that people have about someone or something:

a good/bad reputation

His work in Congress won him a reputation as reliable and industrious.

(Definition of reputation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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reputation

noun [ C ]

/ˌrepjəˈteɪʃən/ us

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the opinion that people have of someone or something, based on past behaviour or character:

The bank's professional reputation was badly damaged by the affair.

have a good/bad reputation He had a very good reputation in the industry.

have a reputation as sth She has a reputation as a tough negotiator.

have a reputation for (doing) sth The company has a reputation for excellent customer care.

earn/gain/build/develop a reputation

enhance/damage sb's reputation

know sb/sth by reputation

to know someone or something because of what people say about them, rather than by having direct experience of them:

He knew Hindman by reputation before interviewing him for the post.

(Definition of reputation from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of reputation

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Once elected, senators had to develop reputations that translated into support among party organization regulars as well as directly among their constituents.

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From an elder's point of view, even infrequent contacts and instrumental support from distant children affirmed their familial bonds and reputations in the community.

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Householders in more egalitarian ' stateless ' societies had to build up their reputations by hand, establishing prosperous homesteads and defending their reputations against other people's slurs.

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Unregulated words often mocked authority, questioned policy and trimmed reputations.

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To the extent that reputations emerge through gossip and social networks, language cannot be ignored as an important means of signal broadcast and signal manipulation.

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Most of the contributors rightly have international reputations, and the book certainly deals with crucial issues.

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The check on the agencies' power, in this ideal scenario, is the need to preserve their reputations.

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By such lobbying and deal cutting are personal reputations built.

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He knows that people who refrain from cheating in these circumstances will develop good reputations and do better in the long run.

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The use of foreign experts also helped to establish good reputations for companies internationally.

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Firms pay heavily for reputations because they are so valuable in this way.

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If rank-and-file politicians seek to balance personal and party reputations, they will opt for a reactive presidency.

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If rank-and-file politicians seek primarily to cultivate personal reputations, they will opt for a proactive executive.

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Obviously, not all politicians are at either of the extreme points of preferring weak parties in order to cultivate personal reputations or else strong parties.

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If rank-and-file politicians or their party leaders seek primarily to cultivate party reputations, they will opt for a weak executive.

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academic reputation

They stand on pupil behaviour, on the quality of the teachers, and on their academic reputation.

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bad reputation

He correctly points out that localist representations have unfairly received a bad reputation.

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considerable reputation

He seems to have gained a considerable reputation as a teacher, and several of his local students went on to become prominent teachers in their own right.

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