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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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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
But toward the end, a federal immigration official she had met with said he needed Marques May to follow him so he could photocopy her passport, he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
“Here you go, hon. This’ll give you a good introduction to Wick’s work. Thing is, you gotta photocopy ’em.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
By Smithsonian magazine’s tally, Americans got by with a mere 20 million photocopies a year in the late 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
They often have to submit copies of their diplomas, typically as photocopies by mail.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
A week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.”
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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
But Mr Auerbach claims Mr Lehrmann turned up to Seven's offices with a massive binder of documents and photocopied more than 500 pages of evidence for the Spotlight episode.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
But this other office offers only a photocopied list of affordable apartments, which is updated weekly and is already out of date.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
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
The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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