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BCC

Meaning in business english, with examples

/ˌbiː siː ˈsiː/abbreviationCore term

In business english, BCC means: Short for blind carbon copy: an email field for people who should receive a copy without the other recipients seeing their address.

In Turkish: gizli bilgi, gizli alıcı, BCC

How it is used

Used to protect privacy when you email a large group, or to keep someone informed quietly. It is also a verb: 'I'll bcc you on my reply'. Many people write it in lower case: bcc.

Example sentences

  1. Please put all the customers in BCC so they can't see each other's email addresses.

  2. I bcc'd my manager on the reply, just to keep her informed.

Common collocations

  • put someone in BCC
  • bcc someone
  • BCC field
  • bcc the whole team
  • CCShort for carbon copy: the email field for people who should see a message for information but are not expected to act on it. Also used as a verb.
  • reply allTo answer an email so that your reply goes to the sender and to everyone else who received the original message, including people in CC.
  • forwardTo send an email or message that you have received to another person, often with a short comment of your own.
  • inboxThe folder in an email program where new messages arrive; also used to mean all the emails waiting for your attention.

This word in other fields

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