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rewriteman

American  
[ree-rahyt-man] / ˈri raɪtˌmæn /

noun

rewritemen plural
  1. a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.


Gender

See -man.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of rewriteman

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; rewrite + man

Example Sentences

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To Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story�at first.

From Time Magazine Archive

He never gets a byline, never actually writes a story himself; he simply talks on the telephone, then repeats what he has learned from the conversation to a rewriteman or an other reporter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last July a rewriteman named Dean S. Jennings complained that he was forced to resign from Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin in order to attend the Guild's national convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Post's Guild Chairman Jay Nelson Tuck, a rewriteman, told the boss that the guild had appointed the entire Post staff to the grievance committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History.

From Time Magazine Archive

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