redactor-in-chief

noun

An editor-in-chief.

OriginFrench rédacteur en chef →
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Meanings

nounredactor-in-chief (plural redactors-in-chief)

plural redactors-in-chief · alternative redactor in chief

  1. non-native speakers' EnglishAn editor-in-chief.

    As every necrolover noticed, neither redactor of the Necroletter had had the time to do anything necrophiliac recently. So we're looking for redactors for it, and / or new redactors-in-chief for the Giovanni, Harbinger of Souls, Samedi and Nagaraja newsletters.

    2004 November 11, Orpheus, “Throwing the Necro Gauntlet”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-31

Origin

  1. Frenchrédacteur en chef
  2. Englishredactor-in-chief

Borrowed from French rédacteur en chef.

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APA

redactor-in-chief. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redactor-in-chief

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“redactor-in-chief.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redactor-in-chief. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redactor-in-chief,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redactor-in-chief.

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