cc
noun
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1 American
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/ ˈsiˈsi /
noun
ccs
plural
verb (used with object)
cc'ed,
cc'd,
cc'ing
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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.
cc
2
American
abbreviation
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copies.
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cubic centimeter; cubic centimeters.
Cc
3
American
abbreviation
CC
4
American
CC
5
American
Symbol.
cc.
6
American
Or
c.c.
C.C.
7
American
Or
c.c.
abbreviation
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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.
cc
1
British
abbreviation
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carbon copy or copies
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close corporation
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cubic centimetre(s)
cc
2
British
abbreviation
cc.
3
British
abbreviation
CC
4
British
abbreviation
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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
cc
Scientific
cc
Cultural
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
This procedure will give the necessary data for altering the marking so that it may correspond to 1 cc delivered.
From A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bolas, Bernard D.
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
There may be a Cc: header, listing additional addresses.
From Zen and the Art of the Internet by Kehoe, Brendan P.
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 Huygens, Christiaan
Raise Dd and Cc, their heights being determined by the line FV.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)
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
Balbriggan's Hollard was named player of the match with figures of 3-28, while Moondra of Leinster CC chipped in with two wickets against the country of his birth.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
Just a month earlier, Taiwanese business titan CC Wei had stood in the White House and pledged $100 billion for a slew of new chip-making facilities in Arizona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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
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
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
With her count of disease-fighting white corpuscles still at only 250 per cc., she has been kept ever since in the near-sterility of an operating room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Thomssen, E. G.
In one scene, an executive, played by David Lewis, leaving the apartment assures Lemmon’s character, C.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Oakley led the work with longtime collaborator and corresponding author Clay C.C.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
"We can expect 2024 to be a healthy growth year for TSMC," CEO C.C.
From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2023
That said, only three sitting lieutenant governors have been elected California governor: Republican C.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Keeping what few wits he still had left about him, Duane flipped the cork off the flask and flung the contents in the direction of the voice just as C.C. had instructed him to do.
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
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
Not a minute was wasted in giving Baby Cheryl 60 ccs of blood.
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 Joly, John
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
If you don’t want your boss cc’d on your emails, then respond to people within a reasonable amount of time.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2019
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
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
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
The New York Times columnist responded by losing his mind—emailing the professor, cc’ing his boss, and telling him to “come to my home” and “call me a ‘bedbug’ to my face.”
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2019
He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2019
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