editor

editor
editor ed‧i‧tor [ˈedtə ǁ -ər] noun [countable]
1. JOBS the person who has responsibility for deciding what should be included in a newspaper or magazine:

• Lawson had seen many financial scandals when working as a City Editor.

• the foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune

• the Deputy Editor of the Arab Observer

2. JOBS a person who prepares a book for printing or a film for broadcasting by checking it and making changes to improve it:

• She is an editor for a small publisher in Oxford.

3. COMPUTING a computer program that allows you to make changes to a piece of writing. An editor only allows you to change the writing in a document, not the way in which the writing will appear on the page when it is printed out

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editor UK US /ˈedɪtər/ noun [C]
a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc. and decides what will be published in it: »

He is the editor of The Wall Street Journal.

a person who makes changes to a text, film, etc. before it is printed or published: »

She is a freelance writer, reviewer, and editor.

IT a piece of software for editing text on a computer: »

Do you know how to use an HTML editor?


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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Synonyms:
(of a work), / (of a journal),


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