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 government says the new app will mean further education colleges no longer have to hire extra staff to photocopy results or chase missing paperwork from prospective students.
From BBC ● May 6, 2025
Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Nurse Monica stands over me, although she’s so short that we’re almost the same height, and pulls out a photocopy of the form my mom signed downstairs only an hour before.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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
A few days later, a heavy bundle of A4 papers arrived: handwritten notes, photocopies of old documents, press clippings from the Kent Messenger newspaper.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
Before Lurz left to make photocopies, with the bald man close behind, he handed me a stack of photos and documents to look at while he was gone.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
It included on its cover a photocopied image of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who is worshipped by most Rastafari.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Zakariyya’s walls were bare except for a row of photocopied pictures.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
I was thinking of photocopying and mass producing — maybe these little houses are mass producing and you lose intimacy or a uniqueness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
Local Mexican media have identified the Mexican woman who was killed as Areli Pablo Servando, a 33-year-old who worked in a business that offers photocopying services.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
In Kinko’s, Wednesday set about photocopying the deposit slips from the bank.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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