Copy-and-paste

noun, verb

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Noun

1
Alternative form of copy-paste. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move."

Verb

1
Alternative form of copy-paste. alt-of, alternative
"Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette."

Example

"His report was a copy-and-paste of another."

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