Usually means: Quantity of five hundred sheets.
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  1. ream: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ream: Merriam-Webster
  3. ream, ream: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ream, ream: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ream: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ream: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ream, ream: Wordnik
  8. ream: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ream, ream: Wiktionary
  10. ream: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ream: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ream: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ream, ream: Dictionary.com
  14. ream (n.), ream (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ream: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ream: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ream: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ream: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ream: Rhymezone
  20. Ream: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ream: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ream: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ream: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ream: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ream: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ream: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. REAM: Acronym Finder
  2. ream: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ream, ream, ream: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ream: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Ream: Glossary of Paper Terms
  4. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
verb:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
verb:  (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
verb:  (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
verb:  (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
verb:  To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
verb:  (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
verb:  (slang) To yell at or berate.
noun:  A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
noun:  A surname.

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