Meaning & use

BCCing

verb·Everyday

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Sending a copy of an email to a recipient without other recipients seeing that address, using the blind carbon copy field.

See it in a sentence

She kept BCCing her manager on every client email as a record.

Please stop BCCing the whole team on routine updates.

A note on using this word

"BCC" originated as an abbreviation for "blind carbon copy," a term inherited from the era of typewritten carbon copies.

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