(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
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An ~ is the person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine and who decides what will be published in each edition of it.
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An ~ is a journalist who is responsible for a particular section of a newspaper or magazine.
Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser takes you behind the scenes.
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An ~ is a person who checks and corrects texts before they are published.
Your role as ~ is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.
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An ~ is a radio or television journalist who reports on a particular type of news.
...our economics ~, Dominic Harrod.
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An ~ is a person who prepares a film, or a radio or television programme, by selecting some of what has been filmed or recorded and putting it in a particular order.
She worked at 20th Century Fox as a film ~.
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An ~ is a person who collects pieces of writing by different authors and prepares them for publication in a book or a series of books.
Michael Rosen is the ~ of the anthology.
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An ~ is a computer program that enables you to change and correct stored data. (COMPUTING)
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