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editor

[ ed-i-ter ]

noun

  1. a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication:

    She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.

  2. the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.:

    the sports editor of a newspaper.

  3. a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc.:

    a video editor;

    the editor of an online journal.

  4. a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.
  5. Computers. a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text:

    an XML editor.



editor

/ ˈɛɪə /

noun

  1. a person who edits written material for publication
  2. a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
  3. a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical

    the sports editor

  4. films
    1. a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
    2. a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer
  5. television radio a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
  6. a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ徱ٴǰˌ󾱱, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of editor1

1640–50; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin: publisher; edit, -tor
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Word History and Origins

Origin of editor1

C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from ŧ to give out, publish, from ŧ- out + to give
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Elsewhere, Black Panther star Letitia Wright will appear in The Story, a new play by US writer Tracey Scott Wilson about an ambitious black journalist who defies her editor to pursue an incendiary lead.

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I still feel a little insecure about my grammar and s**t like that, but my agents and my editor just say, “Don’t worry, we can always work on that. Just be who you are.”

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The artwork was originally bought by Mr Wallace, the Manchester Guardian's literary editor, who used it to mark Manchester Civic Week, celebrating the city's industrial success.

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Well-known presenters, for example, can wield extraordinary influence, as well as behind-the-scenes editors and managers.

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Executive editor Tanya Simon, who is running the program on an interim basis, is the daughter of the late Bob Simon, a well-known correspondent for the program.

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