Word of the Day

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

redact

\rih-DAKT\ , transitive verb;

To draw up or frame (a statement, proclamation, etc.); to put in writing.

To make ready and put in shape for publication; to edit.

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Quotes:

The authors have obtained a copy of this memo, albeit redacted.

-- John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne, Tainting Evidence

White sat down to write or re-write or redact whatever one does to a twenty-year accumulation of episodes.

-- Gerald Weales, "The Designs of E. B. White", New York Times, May 24, 1970

Origin:

Redact derives from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere, to drive back, from re-, red-, "again, back" + agere, "to put in motion, to drive."