Log in or Sign up
copyread love

copyread

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To read text (of a newspaper etc.) and edit it to correct mistakes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb edit and correct (written or printed material)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

copy +‎ read

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word copyread.

Examples

  • She should have copyread that 7th paragraph a little more carefully:

    Hillary Blasts Cheney In Letter To Bush 2009

  • When Ed was getting ready to leave The Arizona Republic, he came to my desk and handed me a column to be copyread and set in type.

    RIP, Edwin McDowell 2007

  • I think that's inevitable; TT users can just post a link and write "Look at this OMG LOL!!", whereas The Local actually needs to research its articles, get them copyread and potentially also allow a lawyer to have a quick look at it.

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed Orla_inka 2009

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. edit
  2. redact

forms (2)

Forms

  1. copyreading
  2. copyreads

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. copyreader

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.