English

Noun

photostat ‎(plural photostats)

1. (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine
2. 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.

Verb

photostat ‎(third-person singular simple present photostats, present participle photostatting or photostating, simple past and past participle photostatted or photostated)

1. To make such a photocopy.
   • 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself

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