editing

Noun
Synonyms: redaction

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable formSynonyms: redaction
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.] To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. [1913 Webster]

Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. --Enfield. [1913 Webster]

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