Sekirov Dictionary

ditto

UK /ˈdɪtəʊ/US /ˈdɪtoʊ/

noun 5
verb 2
adverb 1
exclamation 1
forms 4

noun5

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That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
- [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…] — 1831
The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
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A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
- Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
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A copy; an imitation.
- "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans. — 1991
[in the plural] (historical) A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.

verb2

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To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
- The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police. — 1989
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(US) To make a copy using a ditto machine.
- But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee. — 1966

adverb1

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As said before, likewise.
- The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank. — 2004

exclamation1

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Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.
- I'm really busy today! —Ditto!

forms

dittoed · dittoing · dittos · dittoes

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