revisor

Variant of revise

transitive verb revised, revising

  1. to read over carefully and correct, improve, or update where necessary: to revise a manuscript, a revised edition of a book
  2. to change or amend: to revise tax rates

Origin: Fr reviser < L revisere < re-, back + visere, to survey, freq. of videre, to see: see vision

noun

  1. a revising or a revised form of something; revision
  2. Printing a proof taken after corrections have been made, for looking over or correcting again

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
link/cite print suggestion box