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Definition of Editing

1. Noun. Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form.

Definition of Editing

1. Verb. (present participle of edit) ¹

2. Noun. an act or instance of something being edited ¹

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Definition of Editing

1. edit [v] - See also: edit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Editing

Literary usage of Editing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"For editing a Newspaper.1 As in preceding forms, substituting at the *, as editor, in conducting and editing the newspaper of the defendants, known as " The ..."

2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"In addition to the supervision, editing, and preparation for the printer of all the publications of the Department, the division is charged with a certain ..."

3. The Lettering of an Athenian Mason by Stephen V. Tracy (1975)
"APPENDIX I editing ERASURES The system generally employed is that proposed by the Leiden convention. Although the aim of that convention, largely successful ..."

4. Field Work and Social Research by Francis Stuart Chapin (1920)
"editing and is likely to become soiled and torn. Moreover, the complete loss of a large schedule means the loss of returns for one hundred persons. ..."

5. The Aftermath: Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life. Called Upon the Outer Cover by Hilaire Belloc (1903)
"These are, a few notes upon editing, and some further remarks upon ... I deal here first with editing, by which I do not mean the management of a whole ..."

6. Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1913)
"editing TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS. The editor of topographic maps examines and edits ... When the chief geographer is satisfied that the editing is complete and in ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"THE Committee has to report that during the past year material progress has been mnde in the work of editing the new edition of ' Anthropological Notes and ..."

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