carbon copy
Noun
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Noun
carbon copy
- 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.
- Synonyms: cc
- In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.
- (figuratively) Any duplicate.
- This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
- French: copie
- German: Durchschlag
- Portuguese: cópia carbono
- Russian: ко́пия
- Spanish: copia, copia en papel carbón
- French: copie carbone
- Russian: ко́пия
- Spanish: duplicado
carbon copy
- (transitive) To create a carbon copy of.
- Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
- (Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.
- Synonyms: cc
- Russian: копи́ровать
- Russian: посыла́ть ко́пию
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