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redaction

[ ri-dak-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the editing of text so as to hide or remove confidential or sensitive information:
Transcripts of the hearing will be available online once the redaction is completed.
the text or information that has been removed or hidden:
Most of the redactions pertain to the privacy interests of the parties, including Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, and home addresses.

First recorded in 1610–20; from French rédaction, equivalent to Latin redāct(us) + -iō -ion ( def ); redact ( def )

The White House has been mediating the tug of war between the CIA and the committee over the redaction process.

Some believe that even with redaction, sharp observers might be able to figure it out.

The Latin quotations which follow are probably from some redaction or expansion of the same fiction.

The legendary matter, too, has but few traces of Jewish provenance, and is clearly not due to Jewish redaction.

This was the editio princeps of a number of forged anti-Semitic documents, of which the Nilus Protocols are the latest redaction.

Kirchhoff dated the 'later redaction' of the Odyssey between Ol.

It is in this last order that they have come down to us through Malory's redaction of the legends.

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