copy editor
noun
variants
or less commonly copyeditor
1
: an editor who prepares copy for the typesetter
2
: one who edits and headlines newspaper copy
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Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
In 2009, the Caller-Times still had more than a hundred people on staff between writers, editors, designers, copy editors, and photographers.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
Designed in 1939, the residence was commissioned by Loren Pope, a copy editor at the Washington Evening Star.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
Mary Norris, an author and a former copy editor at The New Yorker, wrote a blog called The Alternate Side Parking Reader.
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Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
In 2009, the Caller-Times still had more than a hundred people on staff between writers, editors, designers, copy editors, and photographers.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
Designed in 1939, the residence was commissioned by Loren Pope, a copy editor at the Washington Evening Star.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
Mary Norris, an author and a former copy editor at The New Yorker, wrote a blog called The Alternate Side Parking Reader.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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“Copy editor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copy%20editor. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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copy editor
noun1
: an employee of a publishing house who corrects manuscript copy
2
: a person who edits and writes headlines for newspaper copy
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