0 past simple and past participle of copy
1 to produce something so that it is the same as an original piece of work:
2 to behave, dress, speak, etc. in a way that is intended to be like someone else, for example, because you admire that person:
3 If you copy and paste something on a computer screen, you move it from one area to another.
They've copied the basic design from the Japanese model and added a few of their own refinements.
All authors need to be wary of inadvertent copying of other people's ideas.
Make sure the file you're copying to is open before you click 'Paste'.
Documents used on one occasion and stored on computer hard disks are often copied and used again later on similar occasions with due alterations.
It might have been copied from another source, in which case manuscripts with shared filled thirds (or other variants) should be examined for other commonalities.
Legal rules should not just be compared to industrial products, created by industries and susceptible to be copied, improved, produced at better costs.