rewording
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rewording
- present participle and gerund of reword
Noun
[edit]rewording (plural rewordings)
- The act or process of creating a changed wording.
- Hyponym: wordsmithing
- Near-synonyms: rephrasing; rewriting
- 1981 February 7, Roger Moody, “London's PIE Trial Opens”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 3:
- The first day's proceedings […] were taken up with a rewording of the indictment, to the satisfaction of attorneys for the prosecution and defense. The case will now be heard under criminal, not common, law.
- A changed wording thus produced.
- Hyponym: wordsmithing
- Near-synonyms: rephrasing; rewriting