Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make such a photocopy.

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

More definitions
  • make a copy by means of a Photostat device

Origin

A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types

A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.

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Forms

photostats, photostating, photostated, photostated
Base formphotostat · to photostat
3rd person singularphotostats
Present participlephotostating
Past simplephotostated / photostatted
Past participlephotostated / photostatted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyphotostat
he, she, itphotostats

Past simpleLesson

all personsphotostated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave photostated
he, she, ithas photostated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill photostat

Synonyms

4 synonyms
photocopyB1copyA2xeroxxerograph

Word family

1 related words
Derivedphotostatter

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
photographyA2photonphotoshopphotosynthesisphragmitesphrasal
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