CARBONCOPY

Carbon copy

A carbon copy is the under-copy of a document created when carbon paper is placed between the original and the under-copy during the production of a document. With the advent of email, the abbrevation cc or bcc has also come to refer to simultaneously sending copies of an electronic message to secondary recipients.

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Carbon Copy

Carbon Copy is a 1981 British-American comedy film, directed by Michael Schultz. The film stars George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, and features Denzel Washington in his feature-film debut.

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carbon copy

Noun

  1. 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 the subjacent layers of paper.
    Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.
  2. Any duplicate.
    This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

Verb

  1. To create a carbon copy of.
    Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
  2. To send a duplicate copy of a email to.


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