Editor Person Prepares Book Noun Bre ˈedɪtə(R ˈedɪtər

• the editor of the washington post
• the sports/financial/fashion, etc. editor
• our economics editor
• she's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.

editor

1. a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included
• the editor of the Washington Post
• the sports/financial/fashion, etc. editor
2. a person who prepares a book to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc.
• see also copy editor
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/copy-editor
3. a person who prepares a film/movie, radio or television programme for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
4. a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news
• See related entries: People in radio
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/people_in_radio/editor_1
• our economics editor
5. a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book
• She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
6. a program that allows you to change stored text or data

Extra Examples

• On page 12, our City editor comments on the takeover bid.
• Russell did a terrific job as book review editor.
• She’s the editor of a national magazine.
• the fashion/industrial/economics editor

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘producer (of games), publisher’, from edit- ‘produced, put out’, from the verb edere.