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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

/ ˈɛdɪtə /

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

  • ˈeditorˌship, 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 ēdere to give out, publish, from ē- out + dāre to give
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Example Sentences

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The court also heard on Wednesday from forensic video editor Frank Piazza, who took the jury through recordings of the "Cassie video", which shows Mr Combs beating Ms Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016.

From BBC

In that sense, Deathracer413 is more than a subcultural vestige — its members present a sports medicine study of sorts, says Michael Burnett, editor in chief of “Thrasher Magazine,” a longtime skateboarding publication.

As a new graduate in 2006, Scott started out as a runner on Doctor Who on a four-week contract, and has since progressed to script editor.

From BBC

For now, journalists are able to carry out their missions “for the most part,” said Gabriel Lerner, editor emeritus of the Spanish-language La Opinión.

Between 2021, when he became deputy business editor, and 2024, he edited major stories for both online and print editions, wrote breaking news, and produced news analysis pieces.

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