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revisor

revisor is the alternative form of reviser.

Meaning of reviser

Noun

reviser (plural revisers)

  1. One who revises.
  2. A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
    • [T]ranslation practice during training should, at least in part, be organised in projects where each student has the chance to play various roles: that of client, of revisor, of terminologist of documentation assistant, of free-lancer, of in-house translator working for a translation company, etc.2005, Christiane Nord, edited by Martha Tennent and Benjamins Translation Library, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, page 218
  3. (US) In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.

Forms of revisor

pluralrevisors

Origin of revisor

From revise + -or.

Words that rhyme with revisor

18 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about revisor

What is revisor the alternative form of?
Revisor is the alternative form of reviser.

Words near revisor in the dictionary

  1. revisiting
  2. revisitings
  3. revisitor
  4. revisitors
  5. revisits
  6. revisor
  7. revisors
  8. revisory
  9. revisualisation
  10. revisualisations
  11. revisualise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revisor (page history and authors); reviser (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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