Sekirov Dictionary

carbon copy

noun 3
verb 2
forms 4

noun3

•
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
- In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.
•
A duplicate or lookalike.
- This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
(Internet) A duplicate copy of an email.

verb2

•
To create a carbon copy of.
- Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
(Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.

forms

carbon copied · carbon copying · carbon copies · carbon-copies

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