clipboard
n.n. a small area on your computer screen where you can copy and move text or images. It acts like a temporary holding place for things you want to move to another spot.
n. a temporary storage area in a computer's memory used to hold data that has been cut or copied. It facilitates the transfer of data between different applications or locations within the same application.
I copied the text to the clipboard so I could paste it later.
After selecting the paragraph, she right-clicked to copy the text to the clipboard before opening the new document.
Modern operating systems utilize a sophisticated clipboard manager that allows users to maintain a history of their most recent copied items, significantly improving efficiency during complex data entry tasks.
From clip + board.