[adjective]It's a widely read newspaper (= it has many readers).(UK) If you take something as read, you accept it without having read, expressed or talked about it in detail.We will take the minutes of the last meeting as read and go on to the next business.He took it as read that anyone who applied for the course would have the necessary qualifications.
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Meaning of READ in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012