Definition "edito" in Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus, spelling "edito"

editor (editors plural )

1 n-count An editor is the person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine and who decides what will be published in each edition of it.

2 n-count An editor is a journalist who is responsible for a particular section of a newspaper or magazine.
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Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser takes you behind the scenes.

3 n-count An editor is a person who checks and corrects texts before they are published.
Your role as editor is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.

4 n-count An editor is a radio or television journalist who reports on a particular type of news.
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...our economics editor, Dominic Harrod.

5 n-count An editor is a person who prepares a film, or a radio or television programme, by selecting some of what has been filmed or recorded and putting it in a particular order.
She worked at 20th Century Fox as a film editor.

6 n-count An editor is a person who collects pieces of writing by different authors and prepares them for publication in a book or a series of books.
Michael Rosen is the editor of the anthology.

7 n-count An editor is a computer program that enables you to change and correct stored data. (COMPUTING)