noun

copy

copy, reproduction, duplicate, issue

Please make three copies of this document.

Please make three copies of this document.

I bought a copy of the new book.

I bought a copy of the new book.

a copy ((of sth.)) a single example of a book, document, etc. I bought a copy of the new book.

to make a copy ((of sth.)) to produce something that is exactly like another thing Please make three copies of this document.

Synonyms: duplicate, reproduction, replica

From Latin 'copia' meaning 'plenty, abundance,' which later came to mean 'transcript, reproduction.'

Think of a 'copy machine' that produces many identical papers.

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