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redaction

noun
/ɹəˈdækʃən/

Etymology

From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion.

  1. derived from redigō
  2. borrowed from redactiō
  3. borrowed from rédaction

Definitions

  1. An edited or censored version of a document

    An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.

    • The government supplied only the redaction to the reporters; the original was kept secret.
    • The content of this codex is a redaction of information from various earlier works. [≈ edited selection]

  2. The change or changes made while editing.

  3. The process of editing or censoring.

    • The Expense Claims made by Members of Parliament must be subject to redaction before publication under the Freedom of Information Act. [≈ censoring]

The neighborhood

Derived

over-redaction, redactional

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for redaction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA