copy-edit

Variant of copy editor

copy editor definition

☆ copy editor

a person whose work is editing and correcting the grammar, punctuation, etc. of articles or manuscripts, as in a newspaper office or publishing house

Related Forms:

  • copy-edit cop′y-ed′it (käp′ē ed′it) transitive verb

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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