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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From New Latin redactio ("redaction"), from Latin redigere ("to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state"), from red- ("back") + agere ("to put in motion, to drive").

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