A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression 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
Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.
{i} duplicate made using carbon paper; cc, copy of a document (sent to a third party); indication that a duplicate (of a letter, email) has been sent to a third
If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them. She's a carbon copy of her mother
This is a method of sending a copy of an e-mail to someone, but implying that they are not the direct recipient For example, you send an e-mail with instructions to a group you manage, and CC it to your boss so that they know what's going on, but understand that the instructions in the mail were not meant for them to carry out When you carbon copy someone in an e-mail, the recipients in the To field of the e-mail are aware of the names in the CC field If you want to keep names secret from the To and CC recipients, you would use blind carbon copy
A copy of a message which all persons on the Cc: list receive Each recipient of the message can see other recipient's addresses See also Blind Carbon Copy