Pronunciations (2)
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/ɹɪˈdækt/
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ɹɪˈdækt
Verb
To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
Usage- Transitive
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The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.
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By the time the Department of Defense is done redacting, there won't be much left to read.
Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.
To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
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[…] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […]
To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
Usage- Rare
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The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.
To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
Usage- Obsolete
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Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde.
To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
Usage- Obsolete
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yere, laborede and founde the arte of logike; þe rewles of whom and causes of þe begynnenge Plato fyndenge encreasede hit moche; but Aristotille redacte hit in an arte.
To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
Usage- Obsolete
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To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
Usage- Obsolete
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To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] the grite penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar redactit be that occasioun, […]
To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […]
Noun
someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
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Verb
formulate in a particular style or language
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I wouldn't put it that way
She cast her request in very polite language
prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
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Edit a book on lexical semantics
she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages