editor
edi·tor AW [editor editors] BrE [ˈedɪtə(r)] NAmE [ˈedɪtər] noun
1. a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc, or part of one, and who decides what should be included
•the editor of the Washington Post
•the sports/financial/fashion, etc. editor
2. a person who prepares a book to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc.
see also ↑copy editor, ↑subeditor
3. a person who prepares a film/movie, radio or television programme for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
4. a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news
•our economics editor
5. a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book
• She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
6. (computing)a program that allows you to change stored text or data
Derived Word: ↑editorship
Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from Latin, producer (of games), publisher, from edit- ‘produced, put out’, from the verb edere.
Example Bank:
•On page 12, our City editor comments on the takeover bid.
•Russell did a terrific job as book review editor.
•She's the editor of a national magazine.
•the fashion/industrial/economics editor
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