editor
/ˈɛdɪtə
/noun
1A person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a newspaper, magazine, or multi-author book: the editor of The Times a sports editor...
- In his club he met a newspaper editor who let him ‘embrace journalism’ as a sports writer.
- But we don't have any black editors of major newspapers or magazines to my knowledge.
- This, of course, was not the intention of the newspaper's publisher and editors.
1.1A person who commissions or prepares written or recorded material for publication or broadcast.No one told me what to write nor was there an unspoken agenda or expectation on the part of the commissioning editor that I knew of....
- Some have simply had a bad relationship with their editors or the publishing house.
- How did Miller get to a position in which she could write such stories and her editors give them such play?
2A computer program enabling the user to enter or alter text: you will be able to use the editor to make any changes you want...
- Real Software has also enhanced the tool's database handler, code editor and debugger.
- In fact in most cases, it is highly desirable to have an editor that wraps long text lines.
- The editors allows a programmer to directly manipulate the intentional program tree.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin, 'producer (of games), publisher', from edit- 'produced, put out', from the verb edere.