redactor
Manuscript revision specialist
A redactor is someone who prepares text for publication by editing, revising, or arranging it.
The term often appears in religious and scholarly contexts—biblical redactors shaped ancient texts into their final forms.
In legal and government settings, a redactor blacks out sensitive information from documents before release: The redactor removed all classified material from the report.
Check writing for mistakes
- copyeditRefine text professionally
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- reviseAlter to improve
- draftPreliminary version of text
corrections · markup · annotate · fact-check · subeditor · amend · refine · polish
Complete power loss
- sanitizeCleanse of pathogens
- expurgateRemove offensive material
- bowdlerizeRemove objectionable content
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
concealment · suppress · restrict · confidential · excision · erasure · blanking · obliteration
Removal of content
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- elisionDropped sounds in speech
- removalAct of taking away
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
striking · gap · lacuna · omitted · withheld · expurgation · excised
Act of revealing information
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- discoveryAct of finding something
- subpoenaWrit requiring testimony
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
testimony · affidavit · compliance · regulation · privacy · anonymize · protected · non-disclosure
proofread
Check writing for mistakes
- copyeditRefine text professionally
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- reviseAlter to improve
draft · corrections · markup · annotate · fact-check · subeditor · amend · refine · polish · rework
blackout
Complete power loss
- sanitizeCleanse of pathogens
- expurgateRemove offensive material
- bowdlerizeRemove objectionable content
classified · concealment · suppress · restrict · confidential · excision · erasure · blanking · obliteration · declassify
deletion
Removal of content
cutting · striking · gap · lacuna · omitted · withheld · expurgation · excised
disclosure
Act of revealing information
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- discoveryAct of finding something
- subpoenaWrit requiring testimony
privilege · testimony · affidavit · compliance · regulation · privacy · anonymize · protected · non-disclosure · confidentiality
- editorseditor, copy editor, chief editors, editor-in-chief, managing editors
- periodistas
- text workersghostwriter, translator, editor, copywriter, reviser
- Bible scholarshiphistorical criticism, Pentateuch, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, final form
- biblical studieshistorical criticism, scriptural study, biblical narratives, Hebrew Bible, textual analysis
- textual criticismcritical apparatus, collation, emendation, recension, variant
redactorcreator
One who produces something
originator · author · writer · composer · primary source
- redacted textConcealed sensitive information
- redaction criticismStudy of textual editing processes
redact, redaction, redacted, redacting, redacts, redactors, unredacted