Meaning of carbon copy | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   broadly
3. A duplicate copy of an email.
   Internet

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Examples

“In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.”

“This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.”

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