Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
- v. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- v. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
- v. To censor, used by a government when parts of a document are kept secret and the remainder released.
- v. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
- v. formulate in a particular style or language
- v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
Etymologies
- From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō ("drive, lead, collect, reduce"), from re- ("back") + agō ("put in motion, drive"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English redacten, from Latin redigere, redāct-, to drive back : re-, red-, re- + agere, to drive; see act. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I think the use of the word "redact" in this situation is misleading.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The media organizations in receipt of the cables went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material.”
“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.”
“In high school, we "redact," we excerpt, we read academic essays or "studies" about the classic work, we read two or three of Shakespeare's thirty-odd plays, one or two of Emerson's essays, half a dozen of Emily Dickinson's short poems.”
Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Wringing The Passion Out Of Higher Learning
“When you eliminate, "redact," the false statements to correct it to be factual, you'd just have a bunch of solid black pages.”
“A competent modern cook should be able to adapt "redact," in the jargon most of the recipes without too much effort, and may find much to spark their own culinary imagination.”
“Members could also be allowed to "redact" some details from documents they submit to justify expenses claims.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The parliamentary authorities had fought against this decision tooth and nail; after it, they attempted to "redact" the information so as to render it as anodyne as possible.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘redact’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
rya, rutilant, ruthful, rutherford, ruth, rusticity, rusticate, Russophobia, Russophile, russet, russel, rushlight and 514 more...
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The Blacklist
Stop SOPA.
blackout, redact, bowdlerize, censor, remove, conceal, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, control, edit, excise and 24 more...
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commonly abused words
Words whose contemporary misuse places them in danger of changing to the detriment of the language. Words and languages change, like it or not. But some changes are good and some are bad. The judic...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Zooey's list
cosmology, consummate, demiurge, paradisiacal, reconnaissance, intransigent, otiose, zeitgeist, coalesce, zeitgeber, absolve, abstruse and 105 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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my words
interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for redact.
fbharjo redact writing is red an act to do Jan 12, 2007