redact

Definitions


[rɪˈdakt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- edit (text) for publication
(e.g: a confidential memo which has been redacted from 25 pages to just one paragraph)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century: back-formation from redaction. Redact is found earlier in English (from late Middle English) in other senses (e.g. ‘combine, arrange, reduce to a certain state’), derived from Latin redact-, redigere ‘bring back’




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