OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4974

carbon copy

Meanings (ES + gloss)
copia • copia en papel carbón
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.
duplicado
Any duplicate.
This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
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