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Noun
en-noun|sg=carbon copy|carbon copies

1. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression 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.

#:Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.

1. Any duplicate.

#:This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

Translations
trans-top|a copy
Finnish: hiilikopio
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trans-top|duplicate
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Verb
en-verb|inf=to carbon copy|carbon copies|carbon copying|carbon copied|carbon copied

1. To create a carbon copy of.

#:Please carbon copy this contract for our records.

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trans-top|to create a carbon copy of
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ttbc|Interlingua: copia al papiro carbon
ttbc|Portuguese: cópia a papel-carbono f
ttbc|Romanian: copie la indigo f

Derived terms
carbon-copy
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• 2007-06-03 07:20 - Ruakh - /* Verb */ bit of cleanup

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