1 a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included:
the editor of the Washington Post * the sports / financial / fashion editor
2 a person who prepares a book to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc.
seealsoCOPYEDITOR, SUBEDITOR
3 a person who prepares a film/movie, radio or television programme for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
4 a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news:
our economics editor
5 a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book:
She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
6 (computing) a program that allows you to change stored text or data
editorship noun [U]:
the editorship of 'The Times'
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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