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Op-Ed Definition

Op·-Ed (äped′)

adjective

designating, or appearing on, a page in a newspaper, usually the one opposite the editorial page, that features columns, freelance articles, letters, etc. expressing varied opinions and observations

Etymology: Op(posite) Ed(itorial page)

noun

an Op-Ed page or an article, column, etc. appearing on an Op-Ed page
Op-Ed Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: Sir John Major has an op-ed in the Telegraph on what the Conservatives need to do to win back power.
  • write: Mr Brown writes an op-ed in the FT on the global economy and does not mention domestic politics.
  • publish: Apart from publishing an occasional op-ed or signing the odd manifesto, they were stuck on the sidelines, watching with dismay.

Adjective modifier

  • recent: A recent op-ed claims 6800 chemical deaths at Halabja.

Modifies a noun

  • piece: Want to see an op-ed piece that misses the big picture?
  • column: If a few op-ed columns don't get written so much the better for forestry, but hacks are not elected: Bush was.
  • writer: The public, tho, might know him best as an op-ed writer and author of books with mass appeal.
  • page: How did the morality of those on the op-ed pages or in the personal columns become endowed with such importance?
  • article: In all, nine European nations issued a historic op-ed article calling Saddam " a clear threat to world security.
  • book: In soft focus sources whose complicity op-ed books are.

Preposition: in

  • t.: Apr 7 2003, 04:03 PM Jeff-1...some excerpts from Gunter Grass ' op-ed in t..

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