blue-pencil

English

Etymology

blue +‎ pencil

Pronunciation

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Verb

blue-pencil (third-person singular simple present blue-pencils, present participle (UK) blue-pencilling or (US) blue-penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) blue-pencilled or (US) blue-penciled)

1. (transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
2. (politics, slang) To use a line-item veto.

Related terms

• red-pencil

Translations

to edit written documents

• Bulgarian: редактирам (bg) (redaktiram), цензурирам (cenzuriram)
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: käyttää punakynää
• French: caviarder (fr)
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use a line-item veto

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• Chinese:

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• Finnish: käyttää punakynää
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Anagrams

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