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"photocopy" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a noun or a verb to refer to the action of making a copy of something using a photocopier. Example: Before submitting the application form, make sure to make a photocopy of it.
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photocopy
noun
A copy made using a photocopier.
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They're not even a photocopy of the Cowell blueprint any more; they're a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy; any trace of nuance and humanity has gradually been blasted away until nothing's left but spite for spite's sake.
All the agency had needed from me was a photocopy of my passport and the assurance that I could use a telephone.
Reading material: a photocopy of a good poem, preferably in Russian or some other foreign language that you have to think hard about, folded in the wallet just in case you are stuck with no electronic or other diversion.Any brilliant packing tips of your own to share?
Campaign workers had to visit the office of the secretary of state in all 50 states, and sometimes even had to trek to individual counties, to photocopy voter lists.
Providing a photocopy of a physical document such as a passport hands over a lot of information and may do so irretrievably.
Even now, security men routinely photocopy tourists' passports and check on them.
Whistleblowers once had to photocopy documents and smuggle them out in their underpants.
On a weekday morning, the queue to photocopy documents is made up mainly of people of Andean Indian appearance.
But the brain-drain is not, as yet, being reversed".Iraq's organised chaos can quickly degenerate into civil war," says Jamal, a Baghdad poet who took his family to Amman when the Baathists discovered a photocopy of his secretly circulating anthology.
Steal a credit card and the victim quickly notices; photocopy a Medicare card and you can bill Uncle Sam for ages, undetected.It is hard to make such a vast system secure: Medicare's contractors process 4.5m claims a day.
For many years libraries have bought books and periodicals that people can borrow or photocopy for personal use.
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