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to xerox

to xerox

5 4.8
To make a copy of a document using a photocopier
  • verb
  • /ˈzɪrɒks/
  • US
translation icon : fotocopiar
  • Please xerox this report so everyone has a copy.
  • xeroxed copy

There was a Xerox store there where there's now the Victoria Bakery, and I was like Xeroxing stuff to mail out to my, you know, I was crazy.

Examples

  • He's usually xeroxing his postcards when I arrive.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Okay, I gotta get that New York Times article xeroxed.

    Taxi Driver (1976)

  • - Make sure to xerox the first two and file.

    Unplanned (2019)

  • And then you xerox the plans and get them back by morning.

    Absolute Power (1997)

  • I could always Xerox it.

    The Hunting Party (2007)

  • I will Xerox the documents myself.

    Sanitarium (2001)

  • I'd Xerox them and send them right back to you.

    The Stuff (1985)

  • You xeroxed his ad and sent it out in a million fund-raising letters.

    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

  • I had an apartment application that I'd filled out and xeroxed, and I rushed to the manager's place with a copy.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • They didn't get printed or Xeroxed in time.

Synonyms

to print
vsto xerox
397 1.0

To make text and pictures on paper with a printer

refers to copying by an office light-based machine, not mass press printing
to photocopy
vsto xerox
15 2.3

To make a copy of a document or picture with a copy machine

is the same action but named after a specific brand
to run off
vsto xerox
2 3.4

Make copies of a document using a photocopier

is a brand-derived verb for the same mechanical copying action
to mimeograph
vsto xerox
  • Archaic
2 9.9

To make paper copies by pushing ink through a stencil

involves a light-imaging method rather than ink-through-stencil printing
to roneo
vsto xerox
  • Archaic
9.9

To make copies of papers using a stencil machine

uses a modern light-based copying process instead of stencil duplication
to hectograph
vsto xerox
  • Archaic
9.9

To copy writing or drawings by pressing ink from a soft plate

relies on a machine imaging process rather than gelatin transfer

Compounds

Xerox machine
  • US
6 2.9

A machine that makes copies of papers or pictures

xerox copy
  • US
2.8

A copy of a document made with a photocopier

Surface Forms

xerox infinitive
xeroxed past
xeroxed past participle
xeroxing present participle
xeroxes third person singular

Etymology

The verb xerox comes from the same company and from xerography ('dry writing'), the dry way to make copies. People began to use the brand name for the action, so to xerox something now means 'to photocopy'.