Meaning & use
Redactor
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A person who edits a text or document, especially one who removes or obscures sensitive or confidential information before release.
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A government redactor blacked out several paragraphs in the released report.
The publisher hired a redactor to prepare the classified memoir for public release.
A note on using this word
Redactor is related to "redact," which originally simply meant "to put into proper written form" before it narrowed to its modern sense of censoring text.
Words with a similar meaning
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