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subeditor en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor English subeditor From sub- + editor.

Meanings

1. An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
2. (UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
   • Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’ 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96:

Forms

Deriveds

stone subeditor · subeditorship

Translations (6)

gv fo-eagreyr (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper) · hu segédszerkesztő (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper) · pl korektor (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper) · pl korektorka (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper) · ga fo-eagarthóir (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper) · ms سوبئيديتور (an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper)