cc
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ccs
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verb (used with object)
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to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to.
I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
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to send (a duplicate of a document, email, or the like) to someone.
Jim, please cc this to each of the department heads.
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copies.
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cubic centimeter; cubic centimeters.
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chief clerk.
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city councilor.
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civil court.
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company commander.
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county council.
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carbon copy or copies
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close corporation
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cubic centimetre(s)
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City Council
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(in Britain) Competition Commission
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County Council
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Cricket Club
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Companion of the Order of Canada
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cc
Initialism for carbon copy; with reference to the former use of carbon paper to make copies, now replaced by electronic or photocopied documents
Example Sentences
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I started with a small 230 cc bike, kept my speed low and stuck to quiet residential streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Other measures under consideration include requiring cars with 2,400 cc engine capacity and above to use 98-octane fuel, and requiring each vehicle to be carrying four people.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2023
For comparison, H. sapiens brain size averages around 1,400 cc.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 5, 2023
Finally, the albino, or “colorless” phenotype, cc, is expressed as white fur.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Albert, Archduke, Governor of Flanders; cxcvii, delays foundation of Watten cc.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
Cc @VerizonSupport you folks should be able to detect sms spam, spoofing my own vzw number, that spoofs your own bill pay messages.
From The Verge ● Mar. 28, 2022
Sincerely, Lawrence Tushman To: [email protected] Fr: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Jack Hi Melissa, Thank you for being so understanding about this incident with Jack.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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Taking then the breadth Cc on the side toward the angle E, let the parallelogram COoc be taken as a portion of a wave, and let us complete the parallelograms CKkc, CIic, Klik, OKko.
From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
In Figure 5, Aa and Cc represent little slotted rods of wood on which the silk-covered wire is wound.
From The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments by Robert A. Chipman
Raise Dd and Cc, their heights being determined by the line FV.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey
His father, CC Sabathia, was a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2025 who finished his 19-year MLB career with 251 wins and 3,093 strikeouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Earlier in the day, the company's chairman and chief executive CC Wei told shareholders that he would "like" to raise prices, as its competitors have done.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The company’s chairman and chief executive officer, CC Wei, made it clear this growth was not at the expense of sacrificing profitability either.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Chemours CC -1.58%decrease; red down pointing triangle spinoff happened months before he was named CEO on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
It was a note, and it read: New CC was testing for undetected Ys, Os, Rs.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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Support Worker oxfordshire cc. abingdon, oxfordshire, south east england. £27,849 - £30,011.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2010
The figure gently declined to 2.0 cc. by 1940, but in only 30 years since then it has plummeted to 0.1 cc.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An additional batch of 350,000 cc., ready for shipping, was held back to give the PHS time to reappraise its own reappraisal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Under the rules only hardtop sedans and coupes with engines no bigger than 3,500 cc. could enter, and all V-8s were excluded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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William of Malmesbury tells us that it was a flourishing monastery till it was destroyed by the Danes.583.Barking in Essex, v. infra cc. 7-10.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
Altman is “too aggressive for me to believe,” chief executive C.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Oakley led the work with longtime collaborator and corresponding author Clay C.C.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
“This investment in Dresden demonstrates TSMC’s commitment to serving our customers’ strategic capacity and technology needs,” C.C.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
But soon that too was gone, as was C.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Unlike Handsome, for example, who was relaxed in both musk ox and non–musk ox interactions, C.C. could never quite grasp what was expected.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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When Barry is struggling, Gene prescribes, “10 ccs of pure Mamet.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018
Not a minute was wasted in giving Baby Cheryl 60 ccs of blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The general thought is that the more ccs gained by the kit, the more radically different the power output will be.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Hence the weight of water present is 99.1 grammes, or a volume of 99.1 ccs.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
It seems late hours were the norm; another email from Balwani, with Holmes cc’d, suggested Gangakhedkar’s team wasn’t working hard enough.
From The Verge ● Sep. 17, 2021
I wrote this multipage letter and I cc’d every Latino arts organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2021
I censored the name of the editor he cc’d, which I guess was supposed to be a power move? anyone who has received something similar, feel free to reach out.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019
Given Kozinski’s prolific emailing habits, there are probably dozens of people who received messages from the judge in which Kavanaugh was cc’d.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2018
The leader of the Senate Democratic Conference, State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who was cc’d in the governor’s letter, had not spoken to Mr. Felder on Wednesday, nor had Mr. Cuomo.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
But an internal NPB Foundation board email sent to its then-chair — and apparently accidentally cc’ed to me — revealed The Family’s active interest in remaining involved.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2024
It shows that Reed was cc’ed on an email in which the author said they did not have to attend jury duty, and Reed responded with the meme.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
“I have to beg to be cc’ed on emails. They say, ‘We don’t want to bother you.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2018
He signed the email “Pierre,” and cc’ed her.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
The next time Kathy checked her email she saw a message from Ahmad; she had been cc’ed.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Her claim that the reservations manager had reached out “multiple times” to you conflicted with your account, so I wrote with several additional questions, cc’ing Steven Roberts, the company’s managing director.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
My colleagues have now started cc’ing me on emails with her as a way for me to follow up with her to ensure tasks get done.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
She said he hadn’t raised his concerns before — not true, as we’ve seen emails of him doing it and cc’ing her in.
From The Verge ● Sep. 28, 2021
He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2019
DirecTV customers naturally replied to the tweet with customer service complaints, and just as naturally ended up cc’ing Braun.
From Slate
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