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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A machine that makes copies of printed or graphic matter.
  • noun One that transcribes or copies.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber.
  • noun An imitator; a plagiarist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
  • noun An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.
  • noun a machine that makes copies of documents, especially by xerography; a photocopier.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
  • noun A person who copies documents.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material

Etymologies

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From copy + -er.

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