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cc

/siːˈsiː/

cc is the initialism of carbon copy.

cc is the initialism of courtesy copy.

cc is the initialism of closed caption or closed captioning.

cc is the initialism of cubic centimeter.

cc is the abbreviation of chapters.

cc is the initialism of crowd control.

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.

See all 5 meanings of carbon copy

Meaning of courtesy copy

Noun

courtesy copy (plural courtesy copies, abbreviation CC or C.C. or c.c.)

  1. (originally) A carbon copy.
  2. (Internet) A copy of an email sent to a person other than the main recipient, to keep them informed.

Noun capitalized: CC

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of carbon copy.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cricket club.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cycling club.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Circuit Court.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of community college.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of credit card.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of courtesy copy.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cryptocurrency.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cosmological constant.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of contrasting colour.
    • Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55
  11. (abbreviation, initialism, SI) Initialism of cubic centimetre.
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of closed caption.
    Synonyms:
    S, sub
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  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cirrocumulus.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, sound engineering) Initialism of compact cassette.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of control change.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of chief complaint.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cervical cancer.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of City College.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of community college.
    • Community Colleges […] Four-year schools are losing ground to CCs.2010, Peggy Whitley, Susan Williams Goodwin, Catherine Olson, 99 Jumpstarts to Research: Topic Guides for Finding Information on Current Issues, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN
    • […] is transforming on a global scale, and U.S. community colleges (CCs) are an important part of that transformation.2021 January 11, Meryl Siegal, Elizabeth Gilliland, Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher: Pedagogies and Policies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 182
  8. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of company commander.
    • At the helm of Company Eleven was Chief Quartermaster Pritchard. Officially he was known as the Company Commander (CC) and had been assigned to Camp Moffett for the purpose of being our CC. […] Successful CC's often had their detractors in the form ofjealous and less successful CC's.2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 9
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of crowd control.
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of constructive criticism.
    • This is my attempt at brightening a photo, CC welcome.
    • Constructive criticism (CC) consists of four steps that can be practiced: 1 Facts: what happened when? (Example: you did not look at me when we just discussed something); 2 Experience: what irritates me about it?2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cross country.
  13. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Central Committee.
    • Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU.
  14. (Canada) Companion of the Order of Canada.
  15. (US, historical) The US Navy hull classification symbol for a Lexington-class battlecruiser
  16. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of carbon capture.
    • Near-synonyms: CCS, CCU, CCUS
    Synonyms:
    CCS, CCU, CCUS

Proper noun capitalized: CC

CC

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Creative Commons.

Verb capitalized: CC

CC (third-person singular simple present CCs, present participle CCing, simple past and past participle CCed)

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy.
    • Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager.
    • Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.

Adjective capitalized: CC

CC (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cement-coated.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, social work) Initialism of client-centered.
    • EFT was found to be more effective in reducing interpersonal problems than either Client-Centered (CC) or Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in promoting more change in symptoms than the CC treatment, and […]2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN

Synonyms of cc

Forms of cc

Noun
pluralccs
pluralcc's
pluralCCs
Verb
third-person singular presentcc's
present participlecc'ing
past participlecc'd
pastcc'd
past participlecc'ed
pastcc'ed
past participlecc:d
pastcc:d
third-person singular presentCCs
present participleCCing
past participleCCed
pastCCed

Phrases with cc

Words that rhyme with cc

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Questions about cc

What does cc mean?
Cc means companion of the Order of Canada.
What is cc the initialism of?
Cc is the initialism of carbon copy.
What part of speech is cc?
Cc can be a noun, a proper noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cc?
Cc is pronounced /siːˈsiː/.
What is the plural of cc?
The plural of cc is ccs.

Words near cc in the dictionary

  1. CBU
  2. CBV
  3. CBVIR
  4. CBW
  5. CBX
  6. cc
  7. CC boy
  8. CC boys
  9. CC BY
  10. CC BY-NC
  11. CC BY-NC-ND

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cc (page history and authors); CC (page history and authors); carbon copy (page history and authors); courtesy copy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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