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cc

1 American  
[see-see] / ˈsiˈsi /

noun

  • ccs
    plural
  1. carbon copy.


verb (used with object)

cc'ed, cc'd, cc'ing
  1. 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.

  2. to send (a duplicate of a document, email, or the like) to someone.

    Jim, please cc this to each of the department heads.

cc 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. copies.

  2. cubic centimeter; cubic centimeters.


Cc 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. cirrocumulus.


CC 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. closed caption; closed-captioned; closed captioning.

  2. Creative Commons.


CC 5 American  
Symbol.
  1. a quality rating for a corporate or municipal bond, lower than CCC and higher than C.


cc. 6 American  
Or c.c.

abbreviation

  1. carbon copy.

  2. chapters.

  3. copies.

  4. cubic centimeter; cubic centimeters.


C.C. 7 American  
Or c.c.

abbreviation

  1. carbon copy.

  2. cashier's check.

  3. chief clerk.

  4. circuit court.

  5. city council.

  6. city councilor.

  7. civil court.

  8. company commander.

  9. county clerk.

  10. county commissioner.

  11. county council.

  12. county court.


cc 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. carbon copy or copies

  2. close corporation

  3. cubic centimetre(s)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cc 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Cocos Islands

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cc. 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. chapters

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

CC 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. City Council

  2. (in Britain) Competition Commission

  3. County Council

  4. Cricket Club

  5. Companion of the Order of Canada

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cc Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of cubic centimeter


cc Cultural  
  1. An abbreviation for cubic centimeter — the volume of a cube that has edges one centimeter long.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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