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In some senses, ditto is marked as informal, US, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
brick-red, busy, dire, new, printed, recuperative
VERB + DITTO
according, offer, powers, say, see
DITTO + NOUN
curtains
PREP.
on, out
ADV.
really, scantily
noun
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—[…]
[…]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…]
A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow.
A copy; an imitation.
"You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.
Last year, Argenta-Oreana blanked the Chiefs 23-0 in a second-round game Dee-Mack coach Jim McDonald said was "pretty much a ditto" of what transpired Saturday.
The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
adv
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.
Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto many members of staff.
verb
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.
To make a copy using a ditto machine.
But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee.
I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department.
[...] 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—[…]
Wiktionary[…]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…]
WiktionaryWell say he's got the constitution of a dinosaur, recuperative powers ditto. And as we both know, I'm a bright young medic with a miraculous touch. Well why then, when I returned, there wasn't a trace
WiktionaryThe 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.
WiktionarySome of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto
WiktionaryThe Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, ditto is marked as informal, US, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.