English Dictionary

carbon copy

名詞

広義

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.

日本語の意味

書類や手紙の原本に対して、カーボン紙を用いて作られた複写文書 / 重ねて写す方法により得られる、原本と同じ内容を持つコピー

She signed the invoice and kept the carbon copy for her records.

彼女は請求書に署名し、記録用にカーボン紙で作られた複写を保管した。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(by extension) Any duplicate.

This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

carbon copies （ plural ）