photostat

noun

1. (dated)A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.

   “Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all 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.”

2. (historical)The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.

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

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To make such a photocopy.

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

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