Meaning

3 senses

  1. The process or act of copyediting a document.

  2. The result of copyediting a document.

  3. A single change to the text of a document that is an instance of copyediting.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. He was in charge of copyediting the paper.

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  2. It's a good article, but it could use some copyediting.

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Origin

Back-formation from copy editor.

Back-formation from copy editor.

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Forms

plural: copyedits

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
copyA1copycatcopyrightB1copywritercoralB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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