Redact (4 letters)

{ Answer }

EDIT

{ Related Clues }

Emend
Rework
An anagram for diet
Blue-pencil
Check for typos, etc.
Correct copy
Cut, as a film
Cut, maybe
Cut and paste
Dele or rewrite
Emulate Greeley
Make changes to
Mince words?
Prepare for publication
Read copy
Revise a manuscript
Rework, as a story
Tailor a tale
Work on copy
Work on manuscripts
Computer text function
Emulate Harold Ross
Emulate Robert Giroux
Fix up, as text
Get to work on Time?
Make the copy right
Man the city desk
Mark up, perhaps
Put in or take out
Smooth out copy
Splice some shots
Strike out, say
Time manager's directive?
Touch up, in a way
Tweak some text
What diaskeuasts do
Work in the cutting room
Work over Time
Take out or put in, e.g.
Weed out or change words
Get a new film into shape

{ Tags }

blue, copy, cut, do, edit, emulate, make, maybe, out, paste, pencil, polish, prepare, publication, redact, revise, say, text, up, way, work

{ Notes }

The answer EDIT is very common and appears about once every 35.3 puzzles.

{ Definition }

EDIT as a verb:

1. (edit, redact) = prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

2. supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

3. (edit, cut, edit out) = cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"

4. (edit, blue-pencil, delete) = cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"