scissors and paste
mainly disapprovingIf something such as a piece of writing is a scissors and paste job, it is not original, but is made up from parts of other people's work.
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Editing & compiling
- abridge
- amend
- blue pencil
- compile
- corrigendum
- cut and paste idiom
- draft
- edit
- editable
- editorial
- emend
- excerpt
- lexicographer
- lexicography
- paste
- proof
- redact
- redaction
- revise
- reword
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