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carbon copy

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Noun

  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.
  2. Any duplicate.
  3. A duplicate copy of an email.
  4. Alternative form of carbon copy.

Verb

  1. To create a carbon copy of.
  2. To send a duplicate copy of an email to.
  3. Alternative form of carbon copy.

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