Xerox

[ zeer-oks ]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a copying machine for reproducing printed, written, or pictorial matter by xerography.

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) a copy made on a xerographic copying machine.

verb (used with or without object)

1. (sometimes lowercase) to print or reproduce by xerography.

Xerox

/ ˈzɪərɒks /

noun

1. 1. a xerographic copying process
   2. a machine employing this process
   3. a copy produced by this process

verb

1. to produce a copy of (a document, illustration, etc) by this process

Example Sentences

A Xerox machine had been wheeled into the bar for that very purpose.

From BBC

Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times

She sought jobs in the burgeoning electrical engineering community around Stanford, working her way up through start-ups, and in 1973 she was invited to join Xerox’s brand new Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC.

From Los Angeles Times

“My best friend, Fran, told me, ‘Get a lot of death certificates because you’re going to have to send them to people and sometimes they don’t want a Xerox, they want the real thing.’

From New York Times

Written on her typewriter and copied on a Xerox machine, the report ranked the top-selling properties in the city.

From Seattle Times