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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You can do so by identifying the official class-action settlement administrator from the photocopy of the check.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 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
The then-Labour leader Ed Miliband was reading a photocopy of the front page as Osborne spoke and said the chancellor "almost need not have bothered coming" to the Commons.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
The 17th Mickey is a flesh photocopy of Mickey Barnes, a good-for-nothing dope desperate to flee Earth after his macaron business flops and its main investor threatens him with a chain saw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
But the photocopy machine was broken, so the woman behind the desk told Deborah and Cofield they’d have to come back later, once the machine was fixed.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
A treasure trove of materials on cryptography, the library included both rare books and modern photocopies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The bank photocopied the check so I read it.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
No one disputed that Ellsberg had taken the papers and photocopied them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
Then I went into my own documents — letters from her, letters to her which I had photocopied — and they mark our falling out when I was 19, 20.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
The worktable was piled with photocopied blueprints from On Spheres, the forgotten Archimedes text Leo had liberated from an underground workshop in Rome.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
A big chunk of that archive is composed of the so-called “Coffin series” — Xerox books begun in 1966, in which Smith experimented with photocopying photographs, ordinary household objects and fragments of her own body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
I’d done some research on multiple sclerosis in the Princeton library, photocopying medical journal articles to send to my parents.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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