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COPY OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does copy out mean?
• COPY OUT (verb)
The verb COPY OUT has 1 sense:
1. copy very carefully and as accurately as possible
Familiarity information: COPY OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Copy very carefully and as accurately as possible
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "copy out" is one way to...):
copy (copy down as is)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
He carried a copy out into the kitchen and presented it to Maria.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Is to copy out the Encyclopædia Britannica.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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