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copy

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copy is on the Basic English 850 List.
copper - copy - cord
copy is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
cook - copy - corner

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
copy

Plural
copies

A copy machine
  1. (countable) A copy of something looks or acts like it.
    They took the diamond and replaced it with a cheap copy.
  2. (countable) A copy of a book, newspaper, painting, etc. is one of many that are exactly the same.
    Please bring me the copies of those reports.

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Verb

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Plain form
copy

Third-person singular
copies

Past tense
copied

Past participle
copied

Present participle
copying

  1. If you copy something, you make something look exactly the same as it.
    Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
    She copies the tests on the photocopier.
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