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quintuplicate

[kwin-too-pli-kit, -tyoo-, kwin-too-pli-keyt, -tyoo-] / kwɪnˈtu plɪ kɪt, -ˈtju-, kwɪnˈtu plɪˌkeɪt, -ˈtju- /


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Their graduates have brought modern office tools to an FBI that still cannot buy a box of pencils without filling out Form FD 369 in quintuplicate — using carbon paper.

From Time Apr. 28, 2011

An additional liability: a prose style with the numbing quintuplicate cadence of a Government form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a rivet fell, but that its fall was noted—in quintuplicate.

From The Misplaced Battleship by John Schoenherr

D'ye remember Pigott, that little cad that was court-martialled at San Antonio in '68 for quintuplicating his pay accounts?

From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King




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