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postedit

postedit verb: to edit and refine (a computer-generated translation of a text).

Verb

postedit (third-person singular simple present postedits, present participle postediting, simple past and past participle postedited)

  1. (transitive) To edit and refine (a computer-generated translation of a text).
  2. (transitive) To edit (something) further after a main editing step.

Noun

postedit (plural postedits)

  1. An operation or workflow step after a main editing step.

Forms of postedit

Verb
third-person singular presentpostedits
present participlepostediting
past participlepostedited
pastpostedited
Noun
pluralpostedits

Origin of postedit

From post- + edit.

Questions about postedit

What does postedit mean?
Postedit means to edit and refine (a computer-generated translation of a text).
What part of speech is postedit?
Postedit can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of postedit?
The past tense of postedit is postedited.

Words near postedit in the dictionary

  1. posted off
  2. posted price
  3. posted prices
  4. posted the coal
  5. posted up
  6. postedit
  7. postedited
  8. postediting
  9. posteditor
  10. posteditors
  11. postedits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postedit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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