redact
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From Old French redacter < Latin redactus, pp. of redigere (“‘to drive, lead, or bring back, call in, collect, raise, receive, reduce to a certain state’”) < red- (“‘back’”) + agere (“‘to put in motion, to drive’”).
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to redact (third-person singular simple present redacts, present participle redacting, simple past and past participle redacted)
- To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
- To censor, used by a government when parts of a document are kept secret and the remainder released.
- The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
- (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.
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- redact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- redact in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- redact at OneLook® Dictionary Search
