Word info

read in

Verb

Meaning

To accept as input.
The computer reads in a program file from disk and executes the contents.

(idiomatic) To allow access to classified information.
― What is this? ― I can tell you what this isn't. This isn't me reading you in, Bernard.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

After discussion with Hitler, he issued a policy directive to Rosenberg that read in part: The Slavs are to work for us. Source: Internet

A framed sign above a key holder at the entrance read in English: 'Bless this house with love and laughter' Source: Internet

All Greek manuscripts of the Corpus Areopagiticum surviving today stem from an early sixth-century manuscript containing John's Scholia and Prologue — so John of Scythopolis had an enormous influence on how Dionysius was read in the Greek-speaking world. Source: Internet

A month after his return from Syria, Tony would read in the newspaper of his old professor’s barbaric death — beheaded at age eighty-three and hung from a Roman column, a martyr for love. Source: Internet

"And based on what I've read in their filings, when Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud — because there are legal consequences for lying to judges. Source: Internet

Although they are read in the service of the church, they are not "Holy Scripture" like the law and the prophets." Source: Internet

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