Meanings
present singular third person redrafts · participle present redrafting · participle past redrafted · past redrafted
- To draft again
The total collapse of franchising that followed forced Williams and Shapps to redraft a number of the recommendations.
2021 June 2, “Network News: "Root and branch" review three years in the making”, in RAIL, number 932, page 101 more example
maybe the metamorphoses are – as in Adaptation – a comment on the screenwriting process, and the way that characters’ identities are revised as the writer drafts and redrafts the script.
2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
plural redrafts
- A second or subsequent draft
- businessA new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishdraft
- Englishredraft
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Cite this entry
redraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redraft
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