Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of preparing a document for publication, especially by deleting private or sensitive information.
- noun An edited work; a new edition or revision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reducing to order; the act of preparing for publication: said of literary or historical matter.
- noun A work thus prepared; a special form, edition, or version of a work as digested, revised, or rewritten.
- noun The staff of writers on a newspaper or other periodical; an editorial staff or department.
- noun The act of drawing back; a withdrawal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable Edited or censored version of a document.
- noun countable The change or changes made while editing.
- noun uncountable The process of editing or censoring.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of putting something in writing
- noun putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
Etymologies
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Examples
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If this speculation has merit, then the process of literary redaction is short-circuited - what we should see is evidence of thoughtful variation on those experiences that find words to express the love of God for us.
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"The so-called redaction feature allows users to black out sensitive sections before e-mailing or printing a document."
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Education at Nanjing. 49 Finally, the Zhonghua editors also consulted the Jiangnan shuju [omission: Chinese characters] redaction, which is a revision of Mao Jin's
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"The decision around redaction or editing - if you will, because I think a lot of people are perhaps not familiar with the word redaction - those decisions are not taken by politicians or ministers.
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"The decision around redaction or editing - if you will, because I think a lot of people are perhaps not familiar with the word redaction - those decisions are not taken by politicians or ministers.
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The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
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The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
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The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
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The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
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Someone in Drum's comments suggests that Adobe -- which has, of course, been making a big push to be thought of as a player in the open government movement -- come up with a fool-proof "redaction" option built right into Acrobat, which seems like a pretty good idea.
hobbeswalsh commented on the word redaction
I like this.
January 18, 2012