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sub-editor

sub-editor is the alternative form of subeditor.

Meaning of subeditor

Noun

subeditor (plural subeditors)

  1. An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
  2. (UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.
    • Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96

Forms of sub-editor

pluralsub-editors

Questions about sub-editor

What is sub-editor the alternative form of?
Sub-editor is the alternative form of subeditor.

Words near sub-editor in the dictionary

  1. sub-divides
  2. sub-dividing
  3. sub-Earth
  4. sub-Earths
  5. sub-Eddington
  6. sub-editor
  7. sub-element
  8. sub-elements
  9. sub-ether
  10. sub-etheric
  11. sub-etherics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-editor (page history and authors); subeditor (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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