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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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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 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
Training on AI-generated data is “like what happens when you photocopy a piece of paper and then you photocopy the photocopy. You lose some of the information,” Papernot said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
An original of the photocopy I have hung up in my room.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
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
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 week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.”
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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
He had photocopied documents and returned the originals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
The copy he gave to the election commission had part of the university logo missing, which Mr Westberg said in his deposition was possibly "cut off" when it was photocopied.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
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
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
John Visentin, the chief executive of Xerox who led the photocopying and technology company through a tumultuous pandemic at a time when demand for printed documents and ink waned, died on Tuesday.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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