Endorse vs. Recommend — What's the Difference?

To express approval of or give support to, especially by public statement; sanction

To praise or commend to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse

To recommend (a product), often in exchange for payment, as in an advertisement.

To make attractive or acceptable

To write one's signature on the back of (a check) to obtain the amount payable or to make the amount payable available to a third party or to the bearer.

To advise or counsel

To write one's signature on the back of (an instrument) to transfer the rights available under that instrument to another party.

To commit to the charge of another; entrust

To place (one's signature), as on a contract, to indicate approval of its contents or terms.

To give advice or counsel

To acknowledge (receipt of payment) by signing a bill, draft, or other instrument.

(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.

To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly.

(transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.

(transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably

To give an endorsement.

To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations

(medicine) To report (a symptom); to describe.

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.

(heraldry) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

Same as Indorse.

To commit; to give in charge; to commend.

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

Push for something;

Be behind; approve of;

Express a good opinion of

Give support or one's approval to;

Make attractive or acceptable;

Guarantee as meeting a certain standard;

Of documents or cheques