Definition of Fair copy

1. Noun. A clean copy of a corrected draft.

Generic synonyms: Copy, Written Matter

Definition of Fair copy

1. Noun. A handwritten document that has been written neatly and correctly without scratch-outs and revisions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fair Copy

fair-haired boy
fair-maids-of-France
fair-minded
fair-mindedness
fair-to-middlin'
fair-to-middling
fair-weather
fair-weather friend
fair-world
fair and square
fair ball
fair bet
fair catch
fair chance
fair copy (current term)
fair crack of the whip
fair deal
fair dinkum
fair dos
fair enough
fair game
fair go
fair hearing
fair linen
fair market value
fair market values
fair off
fair play

Literary usage of Fair copy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The new nation by John Morris (1880)
"... writing out fair; a fair copy. Swahili A. Arabic 1120 Arabic 1153 Arabic 1080 English Arabic 1084 Norman Arabic 1173 Arabic 1181 Arabic 1152 Arabic 1080 ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"Fair. Copy: ECS. Spencer, Emily B. The dictionary of names. ... Fair. Copy: ECS. Small dictionary of Christian names with derivations and meanings. Fair. ..."

3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1877)
"His second is a fair copy, transcribed from the unencumbered text of the rough draft, with the addition of a title and a concluding paragraph. ..."

4. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 by James Knox Polk, Milo Milton Quaife (1910)
"office, to make a fair copy for Congress. The Cabinet adjourned about ^l/2. O'Clock PM In the evening WV Voorhies, a clerk in the General Post-office, ..."

5. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1904)
"Siegfried's Tod : newly-discovered fair copy of 1849; remarkable gloss at its end. TTie unrecovered 185o replica; did it form the basis of an 1851 revision ..."

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