Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An assistant or subordinate editor; one who subedits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
assistant editor , usually in a specific department of anewspaper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an assistant editor
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Examples
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I'm fortunate enough to make a bit of money from commissions, but I also earn a living as a freelance subeditor, which is very agreeable.
BugPowder Weblog 2009
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I'm fortunate enough to make a bit of money from commissions, but I also earn a living as a freelance subeditor, which is very agreeable.
BugPowder Weblog 2009
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Could create job of personal subeditor, perhaps from ranks of ex-NOTW staff – do log on and send messages of support.
Lucy Mangan's pick of the week: the story, the stat, the quote, the tweet 2012
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But if they are good, the options for redeployment within News Corp are endless, so there is much interest in the list circulating right now that has everything from subeditor jobs at Dow Jones to positions at Rupert's Asian company, Star TV.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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For sure, however, every schoolboy (of my generation anyway) knows when at teatime on 16 September the final score – Devon 4 New Zealand 55 – was received by the London sports news agency, the unbelieving subeditor confidently presumed a transmission error and reversed the result to Devon 55 New Zealand 4.
How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history Frank Keating 2010
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Devon-born stand-up Josh Widdicombe's had a rather unusual comedy career, having started out as an occasional sports subeditor at of all the most unlikely arenas for humour the Guardian.
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Having trained on the Richmond & Twickenham Times group of newspapers in south-west London, then owned by Question Time presenter David Dimbleby, Bilmes joined Condé Nast in 1997 as a subeditor on the now-defunct GQ Active.
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Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him.
Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High Simon Jenkins 2011
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Heonce rode from his north London home to Winchester to visit a subeditor who was recovering from an operation.
John Spicer obituary 2010
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Many a subeditor would be lost without "war", "battle" and "fight" – all appealingly pithy and loaded headline words – but again, where's the elegant variation?
Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors Jamie Fahey 2010
rolig commented on the word subeditor
The British term for what Americans call a "copyeditor".
July 16, 2011