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copy/paste

copy/paste is the alternative form of copy-paste.

Meaning of copy-paste

Verb

copy-paste (third-person singular simple present copy-pastes, present participle copy-pasting, simple past and past participle copy-pasted)

  1. (transitive) To copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.
    • It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol.2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media, →ISBN

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Forms of copy/paste

third-person singular presentcopy/pastes
present participlecopy/pasting
past participlecopy/pasted
pastcopy/pasted

Questions about copy/paste

What is copy/paste the alternative form of?
Copy/paste is the alternative form of copy-paste.

Words near copy/paste in the dictionary

  1. copy-pasting
  2. copy-pasto
  3. copy-pastos
  4. copy-protected
  5. copy.
  6. copy/paste
  7. copy/pasteable
  8. copy/pasted
  9. copy/pastes
  10. copy/pasting
  11. copyability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copy/paste (page history and authors); copy-paste (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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