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# copier

«copier» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that makes paper copies of documents and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a copier, copiers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A copier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and pictures; it is also called a photocopier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#m1)

2) A copier is a person who copies, especially someone who copies other people's work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school offices a copier makes worksheets for the whole class. In lessons on honesty, being a copier means copying a neighbour's answers. Phrases: the copier is jammed, use the copier, a paper jam.

### examples

- The teacher made thirty copies on the copier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x1)
- The copier ran out of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x2)
- There is a paper jam in the copier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x3)
- Dad uses the copier at work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x4)
- Nobody likes a copier in a test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x5)
- The library has a copier you can use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/#x6)

### note

Countable: a copier, copiers. Spelling: copy + er, y becomes i. «Photocopier» is common in British English; Americans also say «copy machine».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «copier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.