Definitions
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- noun A person who
proofreads . - noun A person whose
occupation is to proofread.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
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Examples
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My usual proofreader is not a good choice for this semi-technical article.
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My regular proofreader is out of commission and I seem to have let a few details slip.
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And, speaking of angels, remember when I said a freelance editor and proofreader from the U.S. offered to edit my book in exchange for a trip to Mexico?
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And, speaking of angels, remember when I said a freelance editor and proofreader from the U.S. offered to edit my book in exchange for a trip to Mexico?
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LeisureGuy and others — if we charged a $50 annual subscription fee, a proofreader is the last thing we would spend it on.
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Finally I e-mailed him back and carbon copied it to my supervisor basically saying that I had other ads that were more important than his right now and I'll get to his when I can and if he wants to talk about changes or whatever to call the proofreader and leave me the hell alone.
badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2005
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Otherwise it wouldn't have been parallel with "proofreader", and we wouldn't have known how to spell the verb "copyedit".
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I probably talk about proof reading more than anything else, because it's the most time-consuming of all my tasks, but I wouldn't call myself a 'proofreader'.
twelve22 Anna Torborg 2010
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January 28th, 2010 at 1: 51 pm you really need proofreader to intercede before entries are posted. kafka says:
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Please for the love of Zeus someone at CAP get a proofreader for Yglesias.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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