time copy

noun

, Journalism.

1. written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler ( def 5 ).

Example Sentences

Onions are a must – if you’d really like to keep things traditional, as well as make life easy for yourself at the same time, copy Guinaudeau-Franc and chuck them in whole and raw, and remove and discard before serving.

From The Guardian

The assessment he took includes asking a patient to name several animals, draw a clock with the hands at a certain time, copy a cube and recall a shortlist of words.

From Washington Post

Time Copy is any matter for which there is no rush,—usually held to be set up by the compositors when they would otherwise be idle, or to be used in case of a scarcity of news.

From Project Gutenberg

The Sunday paper is filled with time copy.

From Project Gutenberg

Dave, however, had established some sort of order in his den, and had installed at his own cost a spring lock to prevent depredations upon his paste pot or sudden raids upon his select file of time copy.

From Project Gutenberg