copy
• noun (pl. copies) 1 a thing made to be similar or identical to another. 2 a single specimen of a particular book, record, etc. 3 matter to be printed. 4 material for a newspaper or magazine article. • verb (copies, copied) 1 make a copy of. 2 imitate the behaviour or style of. — ORIGIN Latin copia ‘abundance’, later ‘transcript’.
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