Meaning & use
Redacting
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Editing or obscuring parts of a document before its release, typically to remove sensitive or confidential information.
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The agency spent weeks redacting classified names from the report before its public release.
Lawyers were redacting personal details from the emails submitted as evidence.
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Once simply meant 'editing' or 'preparing a text for publication'; the sense of blacking out sensitive information developed later.
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