photocopy

verb

photocopied; photocopying; photocopies

transitive verb

: to make a photocopy of

intransitive verb

: to make a photocopy
photocopier noun

Examples of photocopy in a Sentence

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The effect of all these wildly inventive choices is of a splintered consciousness — and of an image that’s been photocopied so many times its pixels have become blobs. Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026 She's tried to convince people to lend logbooks or family journals to the historical society to photocopy for data collection. Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025 The title itself sounds like something photocopied, a teasing appropriation from any old business-news listicle. Christopher Spaide october 3, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025 Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down. Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for photocopy

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of photocopy was in 1924

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“Photocopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photocopy. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

Kids Definition

photocopy

noun
pho·​to·​copy
ˈfōt-ə-ˌkäp-ē
: a copy of usually printed material made using a process in which an image is formed by the action of light on an electrically charged surface
photocopy verb

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