redraft

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verb

To draft again

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

verbredraft (third-person singular simple present redrafts, present participle redrafting, simple past and past participle redrafted)

present singular third person redrafts · participle present redrafting · participle past redrafted · past redrafted

  1. 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 10
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    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
nounredraft (plural redrafts)

plural redrafts

  1. A second or subsequent draft
  2. 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

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishdraft
  7. Englishredraft

From re- + draft.

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APA

redraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redraft

MLA

“redraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redraft. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redraft,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redraft.

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