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photocopy
[ foh-tuh-kop-ee ]
noun
- a photographic reproduction of a document, print, or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to reproduce (a document, print, or the like) photographically.
photocopy
/ ˈəʊəʊˌɒɪ /
noun
- a photographic reproduction of written, printed, or graphic work See also microcopy
verb
- to reproduce (written, printed, or graphic work) on photographic material
Word History and Origins
Origin of photocopy1
Example Sentences
One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.
In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.
Jean shoves a photocopy of an article from the Cook Islands News into my hand.
The magazine urged readers to “photocopy pages and paste them around your town” – a kind of analogue memetics.
Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
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