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Xerox ™
1. A trademark for a photocopying or printing process that uses xerography.
2. A global company dedicated to providing office solutions. Xerox offers digital copiers, fax machines, printers, scanners, and multi-function devices.

The Xerox Corporation is considered to be the world's largest document-management company, providing the industry's broadest range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies.

The company is so identified with its product that the term "Xerox machine" is often used to refer to xerographic duplicators produced by other companies.

The verb term "xeroxing" has become synonymous with "copying"; however, the company does not condone nor in any way approve of the uses of its trademark name as a verb, adjective, nor noun.

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Xerox (ZIR ahks) (noun)
A trademark referring to a machine that makes paper copies of printed pages, pictures, etc. using the xerographic process: "Alvin's office has a Xerox printer connected to the computer to make it readily available whenever he wants to print pages of text and/or pictures."

"The company is so identified with its product that the term Xerox machine often refers to xerographic duplicators produced by other companies."

xerox (ZIR ahks) (verb)
To copy something; such as, a document by using a special machine called a copier: "Will you please xerox these forms for me."

"The verb term xeroxing has become synonymous with copying; however, the company does not condone nor in any way approve of using its trademark name as a verb, an adjective, or a noun."

The clerk's boss asked him to go to the Xerox store to buy the special paper on which to xerox the report for the Annual General Meeting tomorrow.

This entry is located in the following unit: Confusing Words Clarified: Group X; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. + (page 1)