ditto
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adverb
dit·?to ?di-(?)tō
Synonyms of ditto
: as before or aforesaid : in the same manner —used to indicate that a previous statement also applies to something or someone else
"I'm ready for a break." "Ditto." [=so am I]
The skate park was nearly empty; ditto the dance club.
—Caity Weaver et al.
… wins on the basketball court, ditto at dominoes …
—Rolling Stone
… everyone in Group A will square off against each other. Ditto for Group B.
—Igor Mello
Breakfast buffet. No problem. Reasonable rates. Ditto.
—advertisement in U.S. News
ditto
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verb
dittoed; dittoing; dittos
transitive verb
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: to repeat or imitate (something, such as a statement or an action)
It's too early to know whether Southwest's move will be dittoed by other airlines.
—Gary Guthrie
especially : to restate in support or agreement : ECHO
A resident dittoed the council members' comments.
—Gwen Davis
"I think we did the best job we could," [pilot Bill] Bowman said … . [Paramedic Jim] Rhinehimer dittoed that.
—Greg Noble
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: to copy (something, such as printed matter) on a duplicator
ditto a quiz
She handed out dittoed sheets of arithmetic problems.
—Katherine Paterson
ditto
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noun
pluraldittos
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: a thing mentioned previously or above —used to avoid repeating a word
Mr. Thomas Potter, then, was a clerk in the city, and Mr. Robert Smithers was a ditto in the same …
—Charles Dickens
—often symbolized by inverted commas or apostrophes
b
: someone or something that is the same as or very similar to another
"I like him, just because he isn't a ditto to every man one meets … ."
—Anthony Trollope
Very early on, one begins to suspect that this new creature [a child] isn't just a ditto of ourselves …
—Adrienne Jacoby
… his apartment, a mirror ditto of ours without the furnishings …
—Dagoberto Gilb
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or ditto mark : the inverted commas or apostrophes used to symbolize a ditto
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adjective
: having the same characteristics : SIMILAR
It's a ditto day …, with no change in the numbers of confirmed, probable, active or recovered cases …
—thespinoff.co.nz
