ream
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5.3
- noun
- /riːm/
- Specialized
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resma
- The teacher bought a ream of paper to print the final exams.
- a ream of paper
- fourteen reams
Examples
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Having multiples of certain items in your home (plates) or office (reams of paper) can be very helpful.
Blog text (21) -
Are you aware you used an entire ream of paper?
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Take the plastic off, leave that ream of paper on your desk and never use a sheet of it.
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This morning, she also chose a ream of recycled writing paper from America.
Fiction book (1999) -
Paul, ripping open a new ream of paper...
Fiction book (1990) -
"Somebody got a couple of reams of paper in and saved my bacon," Willard-Jones says.
Academic text (2003) -
It's three reams of long-grain mimeo.
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But on Sunday morning, I opened the closet in my office to get a fresh ream of paper and happened to glance up at the shelf that holds copies of my published books.
Fiction book (2000) -
I was in a small storeroom piled high with reams of paper and mounds of forms so dear to the bureaucratic heart.
Fiction book (1993) -
Beth loved the center, its smell of newly opened reams of mediumweight bond and stale coffee, with a near-romantic fervor.
Fiction book (1996)
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ream for a stack of paper comes from an old word resma and the Arabic rizma, both meaning 'bundle', so a ream is like a big bundle of sheets of paper.