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subeditor

noun

Etymology

From sub- + editor.

  1. derived from ēditor
  2. derived from ēditor
  3. prefixed as subeditor — “sub + editor”

Definitions

  1. An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.

  2. A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.

    • Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subeditor. 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