EDITOR Definition & Meaning

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editor

[ ed-i-ter ]

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noun

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.
the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.:
the sports editor of a newspaper.
a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc.:
a video editor;
the editor of an online journal.
a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.
Computers. a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text:
an XML editor.

editor

/ ˈɛ��ɪ��ə /

noun

a person who edits written material for publication
a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical
the sports editor
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
television radio a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer

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Derived Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of editor¹

1640–50; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin: publisher; edit, -tor

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�y��vlog 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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“We believe that good horses should have good names,” said Wellman, the former sports editor of the Beverly Hills High School newspaper.

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Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, ‘When the Going Was Good,’ chronicles the glamour, the power and the boldface names from the golden age of magazine publishing.

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Paul Miller, in Devon, asks Dharshini David, Deputy Economics editor, about the impact of tariffs on US consumers, and whether the UK could gain from them.

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A messy global trade war looks inevitable, suggests the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam.

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The Times just ran a letter to the editor from a Westside man complaining about the one day a year that the L.A.

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