🏃 To leave quickly 🚫 To drive away 💧 To flow away 🖨️ To make copies 🏅 To hold a tiebreaker

to run off

2 3.4

Make copies of a document using a photocopier

phrasal verb
/rʌn ɔf/

: fotocopiar

But Miranda typed a translation on spirit masters and got the secretary to run off copies.
run off copies

Examples

I'm heading to Kinko's later if anybody wants me to run off their résumé.

Space Chimps (2008)
I have to run off another copy.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Go run off a dozen copies.

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
I'm about to run off another ten copies.

In the Loop (2009)
I might be able to run off some literature for you and your Aramchek friends.

Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
...we can run off as many copies as we need, and they can tinker with it if they want.

The Singing Detective (2003)
lf you could just run off 600 copies, we'll be all set.

That's What I Am (2011)
Can you run off 500 copies of this document for the meeting?
I need to run off a few extra copies of the report before the presentation.
Make sure to run off some handouts for the workshop participants.

Synonyms

to copy

vsto run off

328 1.0

Make the same words or pictures as the original

refers specifically to reproducing printed pages using a machine

to photocopy

vsto run off

15 2.3

To make a copy of a document or picture with a copy machine

is the more general label for reproducing printed material by such machines

to xerox

vsto run off

5 4.8

To make a copy of a document using a photocopier

is broader, covering reproduction by xerography or similar machines

Antonyms

to destroy

∞ 1.0

Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed

to erase

144 1.6

Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible

How Many

to mass-produce

8 3.5

to run off

2 3.4

to print

91 3.6

Surface Forms

run off infinitive

running off present participle

runs off third person singular

ran off past

run off past participle

Morphology

run + off

The printing sense is tangentially related to 'run' (as in operating a machine or producing copies) but the particle 'off' does not transparently contribute the specific meaning of 'make copies'. A B1 learner who knows 'run' and 'off' might guess an action involving a machine from context but would not reliably derive the specialized photocopying sense, so this is partially compositional but not fully predictable.

Etymology

Run off for making copies may come from old printing presses where paper was run off the machine to produce many sheets quickly. So it means 'to make copies' of a document.