copyholder
/kop-ee-hohl-der/US // ˈkɒp iˌhoʊl dər //UK // (ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊldə) //
拷贝者,复制者,抄写者,复印机
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n.名词 noun
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- : a person or thing that holds copy.
- : a device for holding copy in its place, as on a printer's frame or on a typewriter.
- : a proofreader's assistant who reads copy aloud or follows it while proof is read for the detection of deviations from it in proof.
- : a person who holds an estate in copyhold.
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Examples
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
For it is the destruction of the inheritance and against the nature of a copyholder for life.
In 1581 it interferes to protect a copyholder who has been kept out of his holding by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.
A tenant at a quit rent is, to all intents and purposes, a proprietor; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder.
So after a while instead of "villein" he became a "copyholder."
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