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Audio Help [kop-ee] Pronunciation Key noun, plural cop·ies, for 1, 2, 7, 9, verb, cop·ied, cop·y·ing.

–noun

1.	an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.

2.	one of the various examples or specimens of the same book, engraving, or the like.

3.	written matter intended to be reproduced in printed form: The editor sent the copy for the next issue to the printer.

4.	the text of a news story, advertisement, television commercial, etc., as distinguished from related visual material.

5.	the newsworthiness of a person, thing, or event (often prec. by good or bad): The president is always good copy. Compare news (def. 4).

6.	Genetics. replication (def. 7).

7.	Printing. pictures and artwork prepared for reproduction.

8.	British Informal. (in schools) a composition; a written assignment.

9.	British. a size of drawing or writing paper, 16 × 20 in. (40 × 50 cm).

10.	Archaic. something that is to be reproduced; an example or pattern, as of penmanship to be copied by a pupil.

–verb (used with object)

11.	to make a copy of; transcribe; reproduce: to copy a set of figures from a book.

12.	to receive and understand (a radio message or its sender).

13.	to follow as a pattern or model; imitate.

–verb (used without object)

14.	to make a copy or copies.

15.	to undergo copying: It copied poorly.

16.	to hear or receive a radio message, as over a CB radio: Do you copy?

17.	Also, cocky. Newfoundland. to leap from one ice pan to another across open water.

—Idiom

18.	copy the mail, Citizens Band Radio Slang. mail¹ (def. 5).

[Origin: 1300–50; ME copie (< AF) < ML cōpia abundance, something copied, L: wealth, abundance; see copious; (def. 16) orig. a children's game, from the phrase copy the leader

]

—Synonyms 1. duplicate, carbon, facsimile. 13. See imitate.

—Antonyms 13. originate.

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cop·y Audio Help (kŏp'ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. cop·ies

An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate: a copy of a painting; made two copies of the letter.
One specimen or example of a printed text or picture: an autographed copy of a novel.
Material, such as a manuscript, that is to be set in type.
The words to be printed or spoken in an advertisement.
Suitable source material for journalism: Celebrities make good copy.

v. cop·ied, cop·y·ing, cop·ies

v. tr.

To make a reproduction or copy of.
To follow as a model or pattern; imitate. See Synonyms at imitate.

v. intr.

To make a copy or copies.
To admit of being copied: colored ink that does not copy well.

[Middle English copie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cōpia, transcript, from Latin, profusion; see op- in Indo-European roots.]

cop'y·a·ble, cop'i·a·ble adj.

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