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scriptwriter

American  
[skript-rahy-ter] / ˈskrɪptˌraɪ tər /

noun

scriptwriters plural
  1. a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.


scriptwriter British  
/ ˈskrɪptˌraɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who prepares scripts, esp for a film

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of scriptwriter

First recorded in 1910–15; script + writer

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Divy Nidhi Sharma, the show's scriptwriter, says the series follows two women, Kamlesh and Pooja.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

The series' scriptwriter Maan Sakbani, 35, expressed cautious relief that the days of full-blown censorship under Assad were over.

From Barron's Dec. 17, 2025

Ayoub, now a portly scriptwriter with an avuncular smile, weighed a mere 66 pounds during the siege.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2025

But then come a verdict on scriptwriter Bryce Hart's work which, coming from someone who's spent more than 45 years in comedy, makes you sit up and take notice.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2024

In early 1977 my shorthand skills got me a part-time job at the home of Linda Grover, a scriptwriter for the TV soap opera The Doctors.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max

While it’s been a troubling conundrum addressed by AI experts and Hollywood science-fiction scriptwriters for decades, it may have just happened.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Ms. Womack was one of the scriptwriters for “Niyah and the Multiverse.”

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2024

The future with AI will be "chaotic", Kapur says, as machine learning can do in seconds what will take a bunch of scriptwriters "weeks to do".

From BBC Dec. 18, 2023

They wanted not necessarily to replace scriptwriters with generative AI, but they wanted the option to do so.

From Salon Oct. 3, 2023

She decried the culture in Hollywood that devalues writers, telling the Guardian there is a “merciless gag” in which scriptwriters are “the lowest of the low.”

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2023

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