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

With a press of a button—whoosh!—Xerox copiers could crank out as many copies as users might want.

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Xerox created a new, better machine only to have it sell less well than the inferior older ones—until they figured out the salesmen got a bigger commission for selling the older one.

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In 1985, he found a job with Xerox and moved to a place not exactly known for its Black community: Orange County.

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

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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.

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