Sekirov Dictionary

photostat

noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

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(old-fashioned) A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
- The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there. — 2000
(historical) The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.

verb1

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To make such a photocopy.
- […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records. — 2008

forms

photostated · photostatted · photostating · photostatting · photostats

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