Recommendation Definition: Advice or counsel which although presented as such, the recipient is free to take or leave, or which may be binding in the context. In Thomson, Justice Cory wrote: " [T]he word recommendations does not lend itself automatically to a single, rigid definition.... "[T]he meaning of the verb to recommend ... runs the gamut from to communicate or report to advise, counsel.... "[W]hile recommendations often connote advice or information which the recipient may disregard, the term might also refer to directions or orders which are binding" REFERENCES: Thomson v Canada, [1992] 2 SCR 385; also at 89 D.L.R. (4th) 218; 3 Admin. L.R. (2d) 242 and 51 F.T.R. 267 Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!