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Meaning of "fair copy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAIR COPY

fair copy play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAIR COPY

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determiner
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Fair copy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FAIR COPY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fair copy

Foul papers

Foul papers are an author's working drafts. The term is most often used in the study of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of English Renaissance drama. Once the composition of a play was finished, a transcript or "fair copy" of the foul papers was prepared, by the author or by a scribe. Few sets of foul papers actually exist from the era in question. Of the relatively small number of dramas that are extant in manuscript, the majority are from the Caroline era rather than the Jacobean or Elizabethan, and most are fair copies of plays by professional scribes like Ralph Crane. In a rare direct reference to foul papers and fair copies, Robert Daborne mentions both in a November 1613 letter to theatrical manager Philip Henslowe: "I send you the foul sheet and the fair I was writing" — which appears to indicate that Daborne prepared a fair copy of his working drafts as he wrote. The best example of a set of foul papers from Shakespeare's era is the manuscript of Sir Thomas More....

Definition of fair copy in the English dictionary

The definition of fair copy in the dictionary is a clean copy of a document on which all corrections have been made.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAIR COPY

fair
fair and square
fair dinkum
fair do´s
fair enough!
fair game
fair go!
Fair Isle
fair play
fair rent
fair sex
fair to middling
fair trade
fair-haired
fair-haired boy
fair-minded
fair-mindedness
fair-sized
fair-skinned
fair-spoken

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAIR COPY

advance copy
back copy
body copy
camera-ready copy
carbon copy
Chinese copy
copy
hard copy
knocking copy
master copy
microscopy
pirate copy
presentation copy
proof copy
review copy
rough copy
show copy
soft copy
specimen copy
top copy

Synonyms and antonyms of fair copy in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fair copy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAIR COPY

Find out the translation of fair copy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fair copy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fair copy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

誊清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

copia en limpio
570 millions of speakers

English

fair copy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्पक्ष प्रतिलिपि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نسخة عادلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чистовик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cópia justo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ন্যায্য কপি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

copie juste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salinan adil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reinschrift
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

清書
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공정 사본
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Salinan sing padha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sao lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நியாயமான நகல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

योग्य कॉपी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Fuar kopyası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bella copia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czystopis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чистовик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

copie corect
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίκαιη αντίγραφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

billike kopie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

verkligt exemplar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krevet
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR COPY»

The term «fair copy» is regularly used and occupies the 107.578 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAIR COPY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fair copy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAIR COPY»

Discover the use of fair copy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fair copy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fair Copy
"All poem titles are Emily Dickinson first lines, and each poem is an acrostic of that line."
Rebecca Hazelton, 2012
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Fair-copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and ...
Makes key resources widely availableThese books provide the only complete record -- much fuller than that available through any other printed source -- of the major manuscripts of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Mary ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Mary A. Quinn, 1997
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Commercial Relations of the United States: Reports from the ...
J- Drawing minute of application for order continuing plaintiff's solicitors on record as solicitors for assignee, 1 folio Making fair copy to file... Making fair copy for use of counsel, 1 folio Attending in chambers and making application when judge ...
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Congressional Serial Set
Plaintiff's subsequent costs in foreclosure sui/t ele.— Continued. Details of service. Drawing minute of application for order continuing plaintiff's solicitor? on record as solicitors for assignee, 1 folio Making fair copy to file , Making fair copy for ...
5
United States Congressional serial set
Attending warrant and interrogatories when the same were finally settled, the solicitors for Madame de la Batut having brought in exhibits 6 8 Drawing and fair copy state of facts as to the death of Henry Hungerford, folios 48 1 12 0 Warrant on ...
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Consular Reports: Commerce, Manufactures, Etc
Making fair copy for use of counsel, 1 folio . ... Making fair copy to swear, 3 folios ( 6 pence per folio) . ... Drawing up directions for auctioneer as to conduct of sale, 2 folios (r shilling per{ gfOliO); fair copy (r shilling per folio) .
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Reports from the Consuls of the United States
sul'sequtut costs in foreclosure suit, etc. — Continued. Details of service. Taxed off. Amount. L *• rf- Drawing minute of application for order continuing plaintiff's solicitor^ on record as solicitors for assignee, i folio Making fair copy to file Making ...
8
Monthly consular and trade reports
Drawing minute of application for order continuing plaintiff's solicitors on record as solicitors for assignee, i folio Making fair copy to file Making fair copy for use of counsel, i folio Attending in chambers arfd making application when judge made  ...
United States. Bureau of Manufactures, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903)., United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics, 1889
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Consular Reports: Commerce, Manufactures, Etc
Making fair copy for use of counsel, 1 folio . ... Making fair copy to swear, 3 folios ( 6 pence per folio) . ... Drawing up directions for auctioneer as to conduct of sale, 2 folios (r shilling perjl folio); fair copy (I shilling per folio) .
United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, 1889
10
Congressional Edition
Drawing minute of application for order continuing plaintiff's solicitor? on record as solicitors for assignee, 1 folio Making fair copy to file .' Making fair copy for use of counsel, 1 folio Attending in chambers and making application when judge ...
United States. Congress, 1891

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAIR COPY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fair copy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Freedom of expression includes religion
Here is the text of that stanza as it appears in Key's fair copy: “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand. Between their lov'd home & the war's ... «Your Houston News, Jul 15»
2
Call to keep track of latest in judiciary
... on copy applications, maintenance of A and B and D registers, pendency and maintenance of fair copy register and drafting of register. «The Hindu, Jun 15»
3
Wish you were here
... while he composed his "Symphony in A Major," a work begun during his Italian journey, but completed in fair copy in Berlin in March 1833. «Hamilton Spectator, Jun 15»
4
Caitlyn Jenner thanks plastic surgeon with personalised Vanity Fair
Caitlyn Jenner thanks plastic surgeon with personalised Vanity Fair copy as it's revealed she nearly had 'panic attack'. Thanks: Caitlyn Jenner ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
5
The Birth of Eleanor Rigby
The manuscript, now in Northwestern University, is in Paul's hand and looks like a fair copy rather than an original working version, though it ... «Newsweek, May 15»
6
Digital edition of anti-slavery play links it to 1700s opera
The copiest, Jason Clarke Swayze, was a printer and may have been creating a fair copy in preparation for printing. "This made transcribing the ... «KU Today, Apr 15»
7
The Rebels Are Our Countrymen Again: Grant and Lee Meet at …
When his adversary said that he would have a fair copy made for signing, “unless you have some suggestions in regard to the form in which I ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
8
A View From The Fence: Written by Mrs Bach?
... making a fair copy from an original draft, which is now lost. The question is whether this draft was by Johann Sebastian, or by Anna herself. «Huffington Post UK, Mar 15»
9
'John Aubrey: My Own Life', by Ruth Scurr
I wish I had transcribed them into a fair copy soon after my perambulation . . . in 1673,” he wrote towards the end of his life. At his death in 1697 ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
10
American Bach Soloists revisit monumental St. Matthew Passion
... Passion in its most familiar form, the version Bach prepared for Good Friday in 1736 and left for posterity in a beautiful, “fair copy” manuscript. «Davis Enterprise, Feb 15»

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