Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
- transitive verb To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
- transitive verb To delete or remove (private or sensitive information) from a document in preparation for publication.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring to a specified form or condition; force or compel to assume a certain form; reduce.
- To bring into a presentable literary form; edit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to
edit . - verb To
censor , used by a government when parts of a document are kept secret and the remainder released. - verb law To black out text for other purposes, such as in law, when legally protected sections of text are obscured in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
- verb formulate in a particular style or language
- verb prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I think the use of the word "redact" in this situation is misleading.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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After several intense cabinet meetings, Obama appeared to back down and go along with a Panetta proposal to heavily "redact" - black out-all references to specific interrogation techniques, say the administration sources.
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A 1974 amendment demanded that FOIA officers "redact" those portions of a document that the government deemed secret and release the rest of the document, assuming that the non-redacted segments still provided meaningful content.
Michael G. Powell: Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks, FOIA and the Cultural Life of Government Secrecy Michael G. Powell 2010
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By way of contrast, the five media organizations in receipt of the material went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material that the State Department disseminated so widely.
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media Simon Jenkins 2010
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A 1974 amendment demanded that FOIA officers "redact" those portions of a document that the government deemed secret and release the rest of the document, assuming that the non-redacted segments still provided meaningful content.
Michael G. Powell: Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks, FOIA and the Cultural Life of Government Secrecy Michael G. Powell 2010
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The media organizations in receipt of the cables went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material.
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media Simon Jenkins 2010
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The media organizations in receipt of the cables went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material.
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media Simon Jenkins 2010
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By way of contrast, the five media organizations in receipt of the material went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material that the State Department disseminated so widely.
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media Simon Jenkins 2010
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A 1974 amendment demanded that FOIA officers "redact" those portions of a document that the government deemed secret and release the rest of the document, assuming that the non-redacted segments still provided meaningful content.
Michael G. Powell: Shadow Elite : WikiLeaks, FOIA and the Cultural Life of Government Secrecy Michael G. Powell 2010
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By way of contrast, the five media organizations in receipt of the material went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material that the State Department disseminated so widely.
Simon Jenkins: The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World's Media Simon Jenkins 2010
fbharjo commented on the word redact
redact writing is red an act to do
January 13, 2007