editor
US: /ˈɛdətɝ/, /ˈɛdɪtɝ/
UK: /ˈɛdɪtɐ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
editor /'editə/- danh từ
- người thu thập và xuất bản
- chủ bút (báo, tập san...)
- người phụ trách một mục riêng (trong một tờ báo...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included: the editor of the Washington Post + the sports / financial / fashion editor
2 a person who prepares a book to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc.
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3 a person who prepares a film/movie, radio or television programme for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
4 a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news: our economics editor
5 a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book: She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
6 (computing) a program that allows you to change stored text or data
editorship noun [U]: the editorship of 'The Times'
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
rewrite man or woman, rewriter, copy editor, redactor, reviser; writer, columnist, journalist, editorial writer, Brit leader-writer; editor-in-chief, managing editor, senior editor; compiler, collector:
The editor sent the reporter out to check the facts of the story.
Collocation
1 prepares a book, television or radio programme
ADJ.
commissioning | assistant, senior | copy | freelance | film, programme | art, cookery, fiction, music, picture
2 in charge of a newspaper/part of a newspaper
ADJ.
chief, executive, managing | deputy | assistant, associate | contributing | joint | magazine, newspaper, tabloid | features, news, picture | specialist | City, economics, fashion, financial, foreign, industrial, literary, political, sports, travel
On page 12, our City editor comments on the takeover bid.
PHRASES
a letter to the editor
JOB:
be, work as ~
She's a well-known writer. Her father, a trained chef, now works as a bus driver.
study to be, train as, train to be ~
She trained as a painter and sculptor.
start (work) as ~
He started work as a trainee chef.
become, qualify as ~
She qualified as a vet last year.
employ (sb as), have
The company employs more than 1500 engineers.
engage (sb as), get, hire (sb as), recruit, take on ~
They have recruited a new designer.
appoint, appoint sb (as), make sb ~
are usually used with academic, official or highly responsible jobs:He was appointed Professor of Law at Yale. At 39 she was made chairman of the board.
dismiss, fire, sack ~
The club have sacked their coach.
Concise dictionary
editress|editors|editresses'edɪtə(r)noun
+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)
+(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
