recommend

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

The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.

To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

A city that has much to recommend it.

To advise, propose, counsel favorably.

The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.

My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.

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

A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

A recommendation.

"I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"