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redraft

redraft verb: to draft again.

Verb

redraft (third-person singular simple present redrafts, present participle redrafting, simple past and past participle redrafted)

  1. To draft again
    • maybe the metamorphoses are – as in Adaptation – a comment on the screenwriting process, and the way that characters’ identities are revised as the writer drafts and redrafts the script.2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
    • The total collapse of franchising that followed forced Williams and Shapps to redraft a number of the recommendations.2021 June 2, “Network News: "Root and branch" review three years in the making”, in RAIL, number 932, page 10

Noun

redraft (plural redrafts)

  1. A second or subsequent draft
  2. A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges.

redraft meaning in Tamil and Bengali

redraft in Tamil

மீளவரை

redraft in Bengali

পুনরায় খসড়া তৈরি করা, আবার খসড়া করা, দ্বিতীয়, পরবর্তী খসড়া

Forms of redraft

Verb
third-person singular presentredrafts
present participleredrafting
past participleredrafted
pastredrafted
Noun
pluralredrafts

Origin of redraft

From re- + draft.

Questions about redraft

What does redraft mean?
Redraft means to draft again.
What is redraft in Tamil?
Redraft in Tamil is மீளவரை. See Redraft meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is redraft?
Redraft can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of redraft?
The past tense of redraft is redrafted.

Words near redraft in the dictionary

  1. redpoints
  2. redpole
  3. redpoles
  4. redpoll
  5. redpolls
  6. redraft
  7. redrafted
  8. redrafting
  9. redraftings
  10. redrafts
  11. redrag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redraft (page history and authors); redraft (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redraft (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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