Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a photographic reproduction of (printed or graphic material), especially by xerography.
- noun A photographic or xerographic reproduction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A copy made by some photographic process, as of an architectural or mechanical drawing. A common form is the blue-print.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
copy made using aphotocopier . - verb To make a copy using a
photocopier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work
- verb reproduce by xerography
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marburger: What was the context that you've heard the term "photocopy" used in the Recorder's office?
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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But you have a general understanding that people have used the term "photocopy" within the Recorder's office in terms of something that could be done there; is that true?
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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Occasionally one has to read the text to figure out why the photocopy is an exvoto; for example, I have seen one exvoto which was the minutes of a meeting, during which the commission granted retirement to an employee.
San Juan de Los Lagos: The Virgin, her basilica, her pilgrims, and their exvotos 2009
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Occasionally one has to read the text to figure out why the photocopy is an exvoto; for example, I have seen one exvoto which was the minutes of a meeting, during which the commission granted retirement to an employee.
San Juan de Los Lagos: The Virgin, her basilica, her pilgrims, and their exvotos 2009
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The lawyer showed the AP what he called a photocopy of a doctors' diagnosis saying that Mladic was in a Serbian hospital between April 20 and July 18, 2009.
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The lawyer showed the AP what he called a photocopy of a doctors' diagnosis saying that Mladic was in a Serbia hospital between April 20 and July 18, 2009.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The version they found for me (in photocopy form) is from one of Y.T. Ozaki’s collections of Japanese tales, a strange version in which the King of Dreams is a shadowy figure, barely mentioned, who appears to be some sort of dragon, and in which the central character is the Onmyoji, the Master of Yin-Yang.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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The version they found for me (in photocopy form) is from one of Y.T. Ozaki’s collections of Japanese tales, a strange version in which the King of Dreams is a shadowy figure, barely mentioned, who appears to be some sort of dragon, and in which the central character is the Onmyoji, the Master of Yin-Yang.
Hunting Down a Dream 2009
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For years everyone called a photocopy a "xerox copy."
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Written on the photocopy was the statement, "you guys make me sick."
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