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
The recessive c allele does not produce pigment, and a mouse with the homozygous recessive cc genotype is albino regardless of the allele present at the A locus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Nineteen tests showed less than 10,000 per cc.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell
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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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
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
As A2 is proportional to the roll of W2, A to that of W, we can write I = Cw - C2 w2, Ay = C1 w1, A = Cc w.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
That July, they traded four prospects for Hall of Fame pitcher CC Sabathia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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
CC Wei confirmed that the “recent situation in the Middle East brings macroeconomic uncertainties” but for now, “AI-related demand continues to be extremely robust.”
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
Someone arranged blue bits into squiggly initials: JC + CC.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Support Worker oxfordshire cc. abingdon, oxfordshire, south east england. £27,849 - £30,011.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2010
From every 1,000 cc. of vaccine, one cc. is taken.
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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The flask is filled to 100 cc., the contents mixed, and 10 cc. measured into a weighed Petrie or similar dish 2.5 in. in diameter and 0.5 in. deep, which should have a flat bottom.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen
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
That said, only three sitting lieutenant governors have been elected California governor: Republican C.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
He stroked his chin, as he’d seen C.C. do with one of her wings when she was thinking.
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
Shawn Nelson cc’d and the Dec. 3 memo attached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
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 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
Joe Walsh revealed in July that his interview with Baron Cohen was coordinated by an an “Alexis Rothe” from Yerushalayim TV and that an “Alexis Sampietro” was cc’d on the email thread.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 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
He had cc’ed her on an email to another aid agency.
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 replied by cc’ing the entire press shop saying, “I won’t be speaking for this article.”
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2021
He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2019
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