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carbon copies

carbon copies is the plural of carbon copy.

carbon copies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carbon copy.

Meaning of carbon copy

Noun

carbon copy (plural carbon copies)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    cc
  2. (broadly) A duplicate or lookalike.
    • This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
  3. (Internet) A duplicate copy of an email.

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Questions about carbon copies

What is carbon copies the plural of?
Carbon copies is the plural of carbon copy.

Words near carbon copies in the dictionary

  1. carbon chauvinism
  2. carbon chauvinist
  3. carbon chauvinists
  4. carbon chloride
  5. carbon copied
  6. carbon copies
  7. carbon copy
  8. carbon copying
  9. carbon cost
  10. carbon costs
  11. Carbon County

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