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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You buy a xerox machine to photocopy stuff. You don't xerox it as that is not a verb.
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Actually, it can be used as a verb, Jon. from dictionary.com
"Xer·ox (zîr'ŏks) Pronunciation Key
A trademark used for a photocopying process or machine employing xerography. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase as a verb and noun: "Letters you send should be xeroxed after you sign them" (Progressive Architecture). "He has four or five sheets of foolscap, xeroxes, I see, of court documents" (Scott Turow).
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xerox
noun
1. a copy made by a xerographic printer
2. a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder
verb
1. reproduce by xerography [syn: photocopy]
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