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photocopy

[ foh-tuh-kop-ee ]

noun

plural photocopies.
  1. a photographic reproduction of a document, print, or the like.


verb (used with object)

photocopied, photocopying.
  1. to reproduce (a document, print, or the like) photographically.

photocopy

/ ˈəʊəʊˌɒɪ /

noun

  1. a photographic reproduction of written, printed, or graphic work See also microcopy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to reproduce (written, printed, or graphic work) on photographic material
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of photocopy1

First recorded in 1920–25; photo- + copy
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In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.

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Jean shoves a photocopy of an article from the Cook Islands News into my hand.

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The magazine urged readers to “photocopy pages and paste them around your town” – a kind of analogue memetics.

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Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.

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According to the Associated Press, in 2019, the bureau began photocopying mail coming into prisons instead of delivering the original parcels to prisoners, in an attempt to combat the smuggling of synthetic narcotics.

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