copier
Americannoun
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a person or device that copies
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another word for copyist
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of copier
Example Sentences
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Focused on its massively lucrative copier franchise, Xerox hadn’t internalized the process of technology transfer for profit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Angelo has to pretend he’s a copier salesman with business meetings in Rochester, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
“There has long been this kind narrative that China is a copier of US innovation, but I think this was really showing there is transformative work coming out of AI labs.”
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
The copier maker is reorganizing some of its leadership structure and plans on cutting 15% of its workforce.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
“I found it in Mr. Baca’s copier, right where you left it.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
Beijing also launched a national security review into imported printers and copiers.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the early 1990s, David Dorsey spent a year shadowing executives selling copiers for then-booming Xerox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The way computers, cellphones, stereos, printers and copiers were being disposed of previously was to simply add them to a landfill without reusing salvageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
Over the hum of copiers, Ter-Pogosyan told me, “I didn’t know about him or his family, but I’m trying to keep it so everyone knows this was Walt Disney’s first studio.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
The copy place is busy: there are college kids sitting at computer terminals, two men with a stroller at the counter, and people waiting for the copiers.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
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