copier
Americannoun
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a person or device that copies
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another word for copyist
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of copier
Example Sentences
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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
If she stepped away to rinse out her coffee mug or use the copier, she said, her supervisor would text her demanding to know where she was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
The copier maker is reorganizing some of its leadership structure and plans on cutting 15% of its workforce.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
You can use the copier over there, just swipe your ID like a credit card.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
In some cases, online stores are set up by fraudsters who forge items by purchasing products before adding a fake signature - either by doing so themselves or employing the services of expert handwriting copiers.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
With a press of a button—whoosh!—Xerox copiers could crank out as many copies as users might want.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
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
Xerox’s franchise eventually came under attack from Japanese companies selling cheaper copiers that could fit on a desk rather than a behemoth installed in a “copier room” to be fed by secretaries standing on line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
Everyone had BlackBerrys pressed to their heads and there was a sea of cables underfoot for all the computers and printers and copiers they’d brought in.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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