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editorship

[ed-i-ter-ship]

noun

the office or function of an editor.

editorial direction.

Origin:
1775–85; editor + -ship

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editor (ˈɛdɪtə)

—n
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
	a. a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
	b. 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

[C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from ēdere to give out, publish, from ē- out + dāre to give]

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