photocopier
pronunciation
How to pronounce photocopier in British English:
UK [ˈfəʊtəʊkɒpiə(r)]
How to pronounce photocopier in American English:
US [ˈfoʊtoʊkɑpiə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies
Word Origin
- photocopier (n.)
- 1934, agent noun from photocopy (v.).
Example
- 1. Did tom fix the office photocopier again ?
- 2. Back then , xerox dominated the photocopier market and was understandably focused on improving and sustaining its high-margin products .
- 3. Yet there are only a handful of titles containing the word " imitation " or " copying " and they turn out to be manuals telling you how to operate a photocopier .
- 4. It 's not elegant and it 's not sexy it looks like a large photocopier but the espresso book machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible .
- 5. Lawsuits about gross misconduct have given way to lawsuits alleging discrimination on pay and promotion . Such cases typically hinge on different interpretations of statistics rather than differing accounts of what happened by the photocopier .