subeditor

Meanings

nounsubeditor (plural subeditors)

plural subeditors · alternative sub-editor

An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
UKA copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’
1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96

Also see

From sub- + editor.

Hungarian segédszerkesztő

segédszerkesztőan assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper

Irish fo-eagarthóir

fo-eagarthóiran assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper

Malay سوبئيديتور

Polish korektor, korektorka

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APA

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