- a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included
- the editor of the Washington Post
- a newspaper/magazine editor
- the sports/financial/fashion editor
- a contributing/deputy editor
- I got a job as a web editor on the local paper.
- She was associate editor at the magazine.
- He is a former editor of the journal.
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb1, TV, radio and newsb1, Jobsb1- On page 12, our City editor comments on the takeover bid.
- Russell did a terrific job as book review editor.
- She's the editor of a national magazine.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- executive
- managing
- …
- a letter to the editor
- a person who prepares a book or other written material to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc.
- Jenny Cook is a freelance writer and editor based in New York.
- He finally got a position as an assistant editor at a small publishing house.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- assistant
- senior
- …
- a person who prepares a film, radio or television programme for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
- Kazan hired him as cameraman, editor and producer for ‘The Visitors’ (1972).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- assistant
- senior
- …
- a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news
- our economics editor
- a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book
- She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- assistant
- senior
- …
- (computing) a program that allows you to change stored text or data
- There are hundreds of different web editors on the market.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘producer (of games), publisher’, from edit- ‘produced, put out’, from the verb edere.
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