photocopy

American  

[foh-tuh-kop-ee] / ˈfoʊ təˌkɒp i /

noun

plural

photocopies

1. a photographic reproduction of a document, print, or the like.

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verb (used with object)

photocopied, photocopying

1. to reproduce (a document, print, or the like) photographically.

photocopy British  

/ ˈfəʊtəʊˌkɒpɪ /

noun

1. a photographic reproduction of written, printed, or graphic work See also microcopy

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verb

1. to reproduce (written, printed, or graphic work) on photographic material

Etymology

Origin of photocopy

First recorded in 1920–25; photo- + copy

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Not a photocopied handout in English tucked into an envelope behind a paycheck, not a rushed talk in Spanish at the field’s edge, but a verified safety course — certified by labor contractors and farmers alike.

From Los Angeles Times