Photostat

Quick meaning: Photostat is a noun meaning (ambitransitive) To make such a photocopy.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To make such a photocopy.

More Meanings

1. (dated) A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
2. (historical) The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)

Near-synonyms: photocopier, copier (both contextually synonymous); xerographer, xerox (broadly synonymous)

The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there.

[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

Word Forms

• photostats
• photostating
• photostatting
• photostated
• photostatted

Synonyms for photostat

Depending on context, synonyms include photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy, photocopier, copier.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include microfilm, microform, photocopy, photocopier, stat, mimeograph.

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