copying machine

cop′ying machine`


n.
a machine that makes copies of original documents. Also called copier , cop′y machine`.
[1795–1805]
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Teachers' Resource Centers opened at rayon education departments in Issyk-Kul and Talas oblasts as part of the World Bank-funded Rural Education Project.Twelve Resources Centers were opened in total, including 7 Resource Centers in Issyk-Kul and 5 Resource Centers in Talas oblast.Each Resource Center has 2 computers, a printer, copying machine, scanner, and furniture.
A quarter of the children refused to have their favourite security object copied at all, and most of those willing to put their precious item in the copying machine wanted the original back.
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Earlier this year, Cuba arrested 75 so-called dissidents--a group that included 26 independent journalists--and sentenced them to 28 years in prison for "crimes" that included possessing a tape recorder, having an unauthorized copying machine, or publishing articles in the foreign media.
Office rent, a copying machine, computer equipment, hiring a part-time receptionist, and an independent accountant had to be paid for.
* Occasional personal use of a company copying machine, if its use is sufficiently controlled;
As a copyright holder myself, I can sympathize with the people who are worried about the Internet's effect on intellectual property rights - as I said before, the Internet is, in a very real sense, a huge copying machine. Its very method of propagating content is copying "packets" of information from node to node across the globe.
Several days after the memo was sent out, the purchasing department agent responsible for ordering office supplies received a requisition for paper to be used in the office copying machines. Although the purchaser had always bought high quality copying machine paper from a particular supplier for a reasonable price, the memo prompted her to attempt to find paper at a lower price.
Then there is the electronic key each department has to insert in the central copying machine to record use.
The word is most often used in a satiric manner, and office "Luddites" are not seriously expected to set off explosive charges in the copying machine or network server.