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copyholders

copyholders is the plural of copyholder.

Meaning of copyholder

Noun

copyholder (plural copyholders)

  1. (historical) A person who rents land under the copyhold system.
    • Rents had risen so much […] that copyholders had to hire themselves out as wage labourers or shepherds.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 86
  2. (dated) A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
  3. (dated) A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.

Questions about copyholders

What is copyholders the plural of?
Copyholders is the plural of copyholder.

Words near copyholders in the dictionary

  1. copygraph
  2. copygraphed
  3. copygraphs
  4. copyhold
  5. copyholder
  6. copyholders
  7. copyholding
  8. copyholdings
  9. copyholds
  10. copying
  11. copying and pasting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copyholders (page history and authors); copyholder (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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