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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

No scriptwriter would have come up with something like this.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2025

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

You started out at the University of Virginia, which doesn’t seem like the immediate choice for a scriptwriter.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2024

Ludovick packed his portable scriptwriter in its case and went to call on the girl next door, whom he loved with a deep and intermittently requited passion.

From The Blue Tower by Smith, Evelyn E.

Three years before the Olympics, LA28 organizers gave International Olympic Committee officials the kind of Games preview that even Hollywood’s best scriptwriters couldn’t plan.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2025

Not even the Hollyoaks scriptwriters can see the future clearly enough to answer that.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2024

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

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2024

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

From Salon Oct. 3, 2023

The magazine reported that Rupert Murdoch is "consumed with the question of his succession", and even that son Lachlan suspected brother James of feeding family stories to Succession's scriptwriters.

From BBC May 26, 2023

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