photocopy
Americannoun
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photocopies
plural
verb (used with object)
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photocopies,
present (3rd person singular)
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photocopied,
past participle, past
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photocopying
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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photocopysimple
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photocopiessimple
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have photocopiedperfect
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has photocopiedperfect
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am photocopyingprogressive
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are photocopyingprogressive
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is photocopyingprogressive
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have been photocopyingperfect progressive
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has been photocopyingperfect progressive
Past
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photocopiedsimple
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had photocopiedperfect
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was photocopyingprogressive
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were photocopyingprogressive
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had been photocopyingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of photocopy
Vocabulary lists containing photocopy
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: photo
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You can do so by identifying the official class-action settlement administrator from the photocopy of the check.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
Down the sidewalk, I mailed packages for our boys at the pack-and-ship shop, and stopped to photocopy teaching materials for my weekly state-prison volunteering gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The government says the new app will mean further education colleges no longer have to hire extra staff to photocopy results or chase missing paperwork from prospective students.
From BBC ● May 6, 2025
Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
At the post office Molly made a photocopy of the birth certificate, which Vivian has kept in a small box under her bed for all these years, with the original name— May—she gave her daughter.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
"They can't even afford to make photocopies, never mind plane tickets and lodgings," said lawyer Valeria Carreras, who represents 34 families of victims.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
A treasure trove of materials on cryptography, the library included both rare books and modern photocopies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The bank photocopied the check so I read it.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
I didn’t give the building a second thought until my best friend and I started a little weekly newspaper we photocopied for 3½ cents a copy from a shop a few doors away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Then I went into my own documents — letters from her, letters to her which I had photocopied — and they mark our falling out when I was 19, 20.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
He took out the photocopied map and examined it.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
After the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was found guilty in 1984 of illegally photocopying the music of a religious composer, the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
In 2021, the SPS started photocopying mail being sent to inmates to try and close down this route.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
I was thinking of photocopying and mass producing — maybe these little houses are mass producing and you lose intimacy or a uniqueness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Local Mexican media have identified the Mexican woman who was killed as Areli Pablo Servando, a 33-year-old who worked in a business that offers photocopying services.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
I’d done some research on multiple sclerosis in the Princeton library, photocopying medical journal articles to send to my parents.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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