Dictionary

read off en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To dictate from a list, especially in a way focused on sequential processing.
   • When your name has been read off, come to collect your paper.
2. (transitive) To read from a scale or measure.
3. (US, slang, transitive) To scold or reprimand.
   • He also knows that he has a tendency towards being overweight and watches his diet carefully, and he can tell you everything there is to know about every man in his platoon. Yet, more than once, I've read him off for being partial to a couple of obvious earbangers, and the simplest problem can make him indecisive. 1981, The Marine Corps Gazette:

Forms

Coordinates

read out · chew out · read out · count out · tell off · count off

Translations (10)

sv läsa upp (dictate from a list) · da aflæse (read from a scale) · pl odczytywać (dictate from a list) · sv ropa upp (dictate from a list) · pl odczytać (dictate from a list) · hu leolvas (read from a scale) · pl odczytać (read from a scale) · sv avläsa (read from a scale) · sv läsa av (read from a scale) · pl odczytywać (read from a scale)