a clean copy of a document on which all corrections have been made
fair copy in American English
an exact copy of a document, manuscript, etc. after final corrections have been made on it
fair copy in American English
noun
1.
a copy of a document made after final correction
2.
the condition of such a copy
3.
an exact copy
Word origin
[1810–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cleavage, keyboard, knockout, liberalism, realism
Examples of 'fair copy' in a sentence
fair copy
It's a fair copy, neat and legible, but not a presentation copy.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
Yet for a manuscript so palpably not a fair copy, this one is also breathtakingly,vibrantly clear, with long passages of uncorrected text.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
His roughs - dashed off with careless aplomb - often caught the likeness of the moment better than the fair copy, he found.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
What fair copies destined for the publisher did the calf-skin notebook contain?