carbon copy (noun)

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• carbon copy — ˌcarbon ˈcopy noun [countable] 1. a copy of a document made using carbon paper 2. be a carbon copy of something if something is a carbon copy of something else, it is very similar 3. cc COMPUTING a copy of an email message; ➔ Blind Carbon Copy …   Financial and business terms

• carbon copy — ► NOUN 1) a copy made with carbon paper. 2) a person or thing identical to another …   English terms dictionary

• carbon copy — noun count someone or something that is almost exactly like another person or thing …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• carbon copy — noun Date: 1895 1. a copy made by carbon paper 2. duplicate < is a carbon copy of his father > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• carbon-copy — noun Attributive form of carbon copy. Nor does television screen violence provoke nationwide carbon copy murders …   Wiktionary

• carbon copy — noun (C) 1 a copy, especially of something that has been typed (type2 (1)), made using carbon paper 2 someone or something that is very similar to another person or thing (+ of): The robbery is a carbon copy of one that took place last year …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• carbon copy — 1. noun a) 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 …   Wiktionary

• carbon copy — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms carbon copy : singular carbon copy plural carbon copies someone or something that is almost exactly like another person or thing • Etymology: The original meaning of carbon copy was a copy made using carbon… …   English dictionary

• carbon copy — /kabən ˈkɒpi/ (say kahbuhn kopee) noun 1. a duplicate copy made by using carbon paper. 2. something closely resembling something else: he was a carbon copy of his father …  

• carbon copy — noun a copy made with carbon paper • Syn: ↑carbon • Hypernyms: ↑copy …   Useful english dictionary

• carbon copy — noun a copy made with carbon paper. ↘a person or thing identical to another …   English new terms dictionary