carbon copy

1. 1.

   a copy made with carbon paper

   Synonymscarbon

   Broadercopy

Questions about carbon copy

What does carbon copy mean?

carbon copy means "a copy made with carbon paper".

What is another word for carbon copy?

Close synonyms include carbon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbon copy a common word?

carbon copy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.