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Carbon copy

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a copy made with carbon paper wordnet
  3. 3
    Any duplicate. broadly

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

  4. 4
    A duplicate copy of an email. Internet
Verb
  1. 1
    To create a carbon copy of. transitive

    "Please carbon copy this contract for our records."

  2. 2
    To send a duplicate copy of an email to. Internet

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