reading off

Verb

read off (third-person singular simple present reads off, present participle reading off, simple past and past participle read off)

1. (transitive) To dictate from a list, especially in a way focused on sequential processing.
   • When your name has been read off, come to collect your paper.
2. (transitive) To read from a scale or measure.
3. (US, slang, transitive) To scold or reprimand.
   • He also knows that he has a tendency towards being overweight and watches his diet carefully, and he can tell you everything there is to know about every man in his platoon. Yet, more than once, I've read him off for being partial to a couple of obvious earbangers, and the simplest problem can make...1981, The Marine Corps Gazette