reviser

See also: réviser

English

From revise + -er.

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reviser (plural revisers)

One who revises.
(translation studies) A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
- 2005, Christiane Nord, edited by Martha Tennent and Benjamins Translation Library, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, page 218:
  [T]ranslation practice during training should, at least in part, be organised in projects where each student has the chance to play various roles: that of client, of revisor, of terminologist of documentation assistant, of free-lancer, of in-house translator working for a translation company, etc.
(law, US) In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.

person who verifies quality of translation