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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


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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

The other piece came this morning from Iain Morris, news editor at telecoms trade outlet Light Reading, who noted that early deployers of 5G in East Asia are still waiting to see results.

From Fortune

Their ringleader was the magazine editor and writer Dan Okrent.

This week on Deep Tech, she joins our editor-in-chief, Gideon Lichfield, to discuss how consumers’ private data is protected in the world’s largest surveillance state.

My editors are forever asking me to take the long Twitter threads I write and turn them into articles here at FiveThirtyEight.

Hall and other editors have insisted, however, that these endorsements are not the Union-Tribune’s views.

Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.

Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.

“James Woods refuses to toe the Hollyweird line,” Twitchy managing editor Lori Ziganto told The Daily Beast in an email.

The film had been with George Tomasini, the editor, and Hitch hadn't seen it in ten days.

My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”

He was the successor of Dr. Franklin as editor, and entered upon the business in 1763.

Thomas Barnes, principal editor of the Times newspaper, died in London, aged 56.

In the Railway Official Gazette was a column devoted to short reviews of new books which were sent to the editor.

He is celebrated as the editor of Shakspeare, and published several biographies.

For an account of their missionary work in Canada, see Editor's Introduction, vol.

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