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to photocopy

to photocopy

15 2.3
To make a copy of a document or picture with a copy machine
  • verb
  • /ˈfoʊtəˌkɑpi/
translation icon : fotocopiar
  • I need to photocopy this document before we submit it to the office.
  • pages of photocopied
  • photocopy and distribute

It's like photocopying a book, right?

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Examples

  • I was just thinking that I'd run downstairs and get those papers you wanted photocopied..." Her voice trailed off.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • It's late at night, and it is not possible to photocopy the notes.

    Academic text (1991)

  • It's like when you photocopy the same picture over again.

    The Last Showing (2014)

  • Can I photocopy my face?

    Bound & Babysitting (2015)

  • What follows is a study guide that teachers are invited to photocopy and distribute to their students.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Her suggestion to photocopy the cover page and table of contents to share with faculty members was brilliant!

    Academic text (2013)

  • I still remember the day my PhD supervisor gave me a book of his so I could photocopy a particular chapter.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Ideally, each group would photocopy three or four cases, fifteen or twenty pages, and staple each case together.

    Academic text (1998)

  • I photocopied the files and replaced the originals.

    Young, Single & Angry (2006)

  • I hastily photocopied practice tests from the ACT guide and supplemented them with readings of my own.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

to copy
vsto photocopy
328 1.0

Make the same words or pictures as the original

refers specifically to making such reproductions by xerographic photographic machines
to xerox
vsto photocopy
  • US
5 4.8

To make a copy of a document using a photocopier

is the general term for making photographic copies using xerography
to run off
vsto photocopy
2 3.4

Make copies of a document using a photocopier

focuses specifically on making photographic copies by xerography rather than any other copying machine
to mimeograph
vsto photocopy
  • Archaic
2 9.9

To make paper copies by pushing ink through a stencil

uses xerographic photographic process rather than ink-through-stencil duplication methods
to dup
vsto photocopy
  • Informal
1 8.6

To make a copy of a file or recording

applies to machine-made photographic reproductions of physical documents using xerography
to photostat
vsto photocopy
  • Archaic
9.9

To make a paper copy using an old photocopier

refers to making photographic copies by xerography rather than with older pre digital machines
to rephotograph
vsto photocopy
  • Specialized
6.8

Take a new picture of an existing picture to make a copy

uses a xerographic copying process instead of photographing an existing image
to roneo
vsto photocopy
  • Archaic
9.9

To make copies of papers using a stencil machine

relies on xerographic imaging rather than stencil duplicating processes
to hectograph
vsto photocopy
  • Archaic
9.9

To copy writing or drawings by pressing ink from a soft plate

is a modern xerographic method not using early gel duplicators

How Modern

soft copy
  • Specialized
1 3.2
to photocopy
15 2.3
mimeo
  • Archaic
1 9.9
carbon copy
  • Archaic
4 3.0

Surface Forms

photocopy infinitive
photocopied past
photocopied past participle
photocopying present participle
photocopies third person singular

Etymology

Photocopy comes from photo ('light') and copy ('a duplicate'). To photocopy something is to make a duplicate of it using a machine that works with light.