Reputation

n. repute, regard; esteem, renown

Reputation is the opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the public toward a person, a group of people, or an organization. It is an important factor in many fields, such as business, online communities or social status.Reputation is known to be a ubiquitous, spontaneous and highly efficient mechanism of social control in natural societies. It is a subject of study in social, management and technological sciences. Its influence ranges from competitive settings, like markets, to cooperative ones, like firms, organisations, institutions and communities. Furthermore, reputation acts on different levels of agency, individual and supra-individual. At the supra-individual level, it concerns groups, communities, collectives and abstract social entities (such as firms, corporations, organizations, countries, cultures and even civilisations). It affects phenomena of different scale, from everyday life to relationships between nations. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of social order, based upon distributed, spontaneous social control.
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Noun
1. the state of being held in high esteem and honor
(synonym) repute
(hypernym) honor, honour, laurels
(hyponym) black eye
(attribute) reputable
(derivation) think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be
2. notoriety for some particular characteristic; "his reputation for promiscuity"
(hypernym) notoriety, ill fame
(derivation) think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be
3. the general estimation that the public has for a person; "he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing"; "he was a person of bad report"
(synonym) report
(hypernym) estimate, estimation
(derivation) think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be

n. reputation, repute, regard; esteem, renown

n. reputation, good name; report, name, fame; repute, standing, credit