recopy

verb

re·​copy (ˌ)rē-ˈkä-pē 

recopied; recopying; recopies

transitive verb

: to copy (something) again

I intended to bring up the example of the Irish monasteries during the Dark Ages. Monks in Ireland copied and recopied manuscripts at a time when parchment was being used as heating fuel in the rest of Europe.

—John Rember

The dictations were amended, edited, recopied, and left in an inchoate form for most of a century, until the editors at the Mark Twain Papers & Project decided to put them into shape.

—Steve Courtney

Examples of recopy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To counter the faulty machinery, election workers will have to manually recopy the mail-in ballots with illegible barcodes into new ballots under the election code, but every valid vote ultimately will be counted properly, Garcia said last week. —Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1684, in the meaning defined above