run sth off
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
If you run off copies of something, you print them:
[ + two objects ] Could you run me off five copies of this, please?
to quickly and easily write something that is usually slow or difficult to write, such as a piece of poetry or music:
Kate can run off a sonnet in half an hour on any subject you like.
US to win points easily in a competition:
Iowa ran off 12 straight points to take the lead.
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Publishing: printing & word processing
- bed
- bold
- Braille
- bullet
- bullet point
- CMYK
- indentation
- inline
- intaglio printing
- italic
- italicize
- landscape
- plate
- printer
- publication
- publish
- put sth to bed idiom
- reissue
- reprint
- roman
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