revisor

Variant of revise

revise definition

re·vise (ri vīz)

transitive verb revised -·vised′, revising -·vis′·ing

  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

Etymology: 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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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