carbon copy
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carbon copy (plural carbon copies)
- A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression 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.
- Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.
- Any duplicate.
- This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
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a copy
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duplicate
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to carbon copy (third-person singular simple present carbon copies, present participle carbon copying, simple past and past participle carbon copied)
- To create a carbon copy of.
- Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
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to create a carbon copy of
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- Interlingua: copia al papiro carbon
- Portuguese: cópia a papel-carbono f
- Romanian: copie la indigo f
