Meaning & use
roneo
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To duplicate a document using a Roneo machine, a stencil duplicator once common in British offices.
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The secretary roneoed a hundred copies of the meeting agenda before lunch.
Old school newsletters were often roneoed on cheap, faintly purple-tinted paper.
A note on using this word
Originally a trademark for a stencil-duplicating machine, Roneo became a generic verb in British English before photocopiers made it obsolete.
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