xerox 🔊 noun UK /ˈzɛ.ɹɒks/ · US /ˈziː(ə)ɹ.ɑks/
Etymology Genericized trademark from Xerox (“a photocopier”), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) and γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).
Near-synonyms: photocopy (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous) Hand me that xerox, would you? 1 more example There were twenty pictures in the envelope, xeroxes but clear enough. They documented the scene pretty much as I imagined it.2009, David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife, Random House, →ISBN, page 142: Near-synonyms: photocopier, photoduplicator, copier (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous) The xerox broke down yesterday.
xerox 🔊 verb Etymology Genericized trademark from Xerox (“a photocopier”), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) and γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).
1 Ambitransitive To make a copy using a xerographer.
Near-synonyms: photocopy, photoduplicate (broadly synonymous), photostat (broadly synonymous) I xeroxed the report for all the people at the meeting.