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Photostat

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A photocopy made using a photocopier or Photostat machine. Ireland, Malaysia, Philippines, UK

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

  2. 2
    a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper wordnet
  3. 3
    Positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
  4. 4
    a photocopy made on a Photostat machine wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make such a photocopy of. transitive

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

  2. 2
    make a copy by means of a Photostat device wordnet

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