Definition: 1. A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine). 2. A person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included. 3. (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data.
Use 'editor' in a sentence:
1. It's more like a word processor than it is a simple text editor.
2. Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor.
3. He may have had some suspicions of Michael Foster, the editor of the journal.
4. Mike later became the sports editor for The Beacon.
5. Prue invited the magazine's editor to lunch and made her pitch.
6. The editor struck out the whole paragraph.
7. Michael Rosen is the editor of the anthology.
8. Applications should be addressed to: The business affairs editor.
9. He began his career as a sound editor.
10. Editors and contributors are trying to second-guess the future.
11. She's the literary editor of the 'Sunday Review'.
12. You're the editor of Public Eye.
13. To edit it, you need to run the built-in Windows Registry editor.
14. This story has many ingredients which make any news editor froth at the mouth with excitement.
15. She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
16. The editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking.
17. The editor killed a few useless lines.
18. The stories are then passed to the senior duty editor and the assistant editor.
19. Editors were unanimous in their condemnation of the proposals.
20. To include as many viewpoints as possible, the editor reserves the right to shorten letters.
21. I think he was born to be editor of a tabloid newspaper.
22. We're losing a first-rate editor in Jen.
23. The newspaper, or more specifically, the editor, was taken to court for publishing the photographs.
24. The next day, an earnest editor wrote an editorial.
25. We have restored Hamill to his rightful place as editor.
26. Keith Vass, editor, denies he had inside knowledge.
27. Is this something to do with what the editor wrote about the statue?
28. The editor is giving explanatory notes to the translation.
29. He was an editor of the literary magazine in the 1930s.
30. Your role as editor is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.
31. "The automobile killed our downtown," claims Jim Snyder, city editor of the Parkersburg News.
32. The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking integrity.
33. It is not an online editor.
34. The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking.
35. Frank Deford is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.
36. Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser takes you behind the scenes.
37. When I was a fashion editor, I mostly wore white shirts and black or navy trousers.
38. She worked at 20th Century Fox as a film editor.
39. Newspaper editors all strive to be first with a story.
40. He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine.
41. I was promoted to editor and then editorial director.
42. They will be deleted when you switch to the visual editor.
43. He drafted a standard letter to the editors.
44. The editor's decision is final and shall evermore remain so.
45. My agent has pitched the idea to my editor in New York.
46. She's the literary editor of the "Sunday Review."
47. The editors rushed out an item on the crash for the late news.
48. Before becoming a full-blown director, he worked as the film editor on Citizen Kane.
49. The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject.
50. Fashion editors drooled over every item.
51. Three editors handled the work of revising the articles for publication.
52. Her father was the former editor of the Saturday Review.
