redraft

English

Etymology

re- +‎ draft

Verb

redraft (third-person singular simple present redrafts, present participle redrafting, simple past and past participle redrafted)

1. To draft again
   • 2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     maybe the metamorphoses are – as in Adaptation – a comment on the screenwriting process, and the way that characters’ identities are revised as the writer drafts and redrafts the script.

   • 2021 June 2, “Network News: "Root and branch" review three years in the making”, in RAIL, number 932, page 10:

     The total collapse of franchising that followed forced Williams and Shapps to redraft a number of the recommendations.

Noun

redraft (plural redrafts)

1. A second or subsequent draft
2. (finance) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges.

Anagrams

• drafter