BCC
- noun
- Texting
- When sending the newsletter, I added her name in the BCC field to maintain her privacy.
- the BCC field
Examples
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The impressive new North Hall and Library at Bronx Community College (BCC) is now home to one of the largest public art commissions the Bronx has seen since the late 1930s.
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Like the, the turn around that you'll get from personal emails versus the turn around you'll get from like a blanket BCC e-mail.
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Highlight the address and choose BCC, and that's it; it's that easy.
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When you send to BCC, your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO" field of the people who receive it.
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To: Undisclosed recipients Bcc: Tim Burke
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Always use the BCC (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address.
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Brennan once questioned Rizzo's use of the "BCC" function in the agency's e-mail system to send a blind copy of a message to a third party without the primary recipient's knowledge.
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The manager used the BCC option to discreetly share the information with select employees.
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To keep the email list confidential, I always put the recipients in the BCC line.
Surface Forms
Etymology
BCC comes from the phrase blind carbon copy, where carbon copy was a copy made with carbon paper and blind means 'hidden'. So a BCC is an email copy sent to someone without the other recipients seeing their address.