subedit
/ˈsʌbɛdɪt
/verb (subedits, subediting, subedited) [with object] chiefly British
Check and correct (the text of a newspaper or magazine before printing), typically also writing headlines and captions: he wrote articles on sport while subediting the Oxford Magazine...
- I'd be up for contributing some stuff, and could conceivably subedit and layout the pages on Quark, the desk-top publishing software.
- There was some subediting on a couple of pages of a website that I haven't got to the bottom of yet but which the director general I am sure will tell the governors about.
Derivatives
subeditor
/ noun ...- Within hours the word had become a favourite phrase of writers and subeditors and entered the journalistic vernacular.
- These days, the barrister who checks copy for potential libel suits is as much a part of a newspaper's production as a journalist or subeditor.
- Newspapers often claim superiority because their stories go through a time-established filtration plant - professional writers, skilled subeditors, revise subs and expensive lawyers.
subeditorial
- Unlike many exercises in subeditorial interpretation, the title exactly reflects the argument of the piece.
- Comments on subeditorial matters are welcome and should be written on the manuscript, preferably in pencil.
- In related news, the Financial Times is inviting several of its subeditorial staff it had laid off back to work.
Rhymes
- off-licence
- off-licensed
- off-licensee
- off limits
- offline
- offload
- off-lying
- off-market
- off-message
- off-microphone
- off-mike
- off-network
- Off-Off
- off-off-Broadway
- off-off Broadway
- off-off-off Broadway
- off one's chump
- off one's face
- off one's feed
- off one's feet
- off one's nana
- off one's nut
- off one's own bat
- off one's rocker
- off one's scone