redraft

verb

re·​draft (ˌ)rē-ˈdraft 

-ˈdräft

redrafted; redrafting; redrafts

transitive + intransitive

: to draft (something) again

redraft a contract/letter/will

was hired to redraft the script

Major energy legislation … ran into insurmountable hurdles in the Senate last year and may be redrafted to avoid some of the stumbling blocks …

—Helen Dewar

… the tortured hours [poet Elizabeth] Bishop spent not writing and then, once she finally got started, drafting and redrafting until a poem found … virtuosic form …

—Meghan O'Rourke

redraft

ˈrē-ˌdraft 

-ˌdräft

noun

plural redrafts

… running back and forth from her office to work on drafts and redrafts of a document.

—Terry Carter

Synonyms of redraft

• edit
• revise
• rework

Examples of redraft in a Sentence

if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it

Recent Examples on the Web

The South African Reserve Bank will also redraft risk scenarios in the wake of the war. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026

If ballot language is struck down in court, Hoskins will get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025

The House and Senate will redraft Healey’s spending blueprint and debate their own versions, typically in April and May. — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026

Novelist Lauren Groff writes all her first drafts longhand, then redrafts without consulting those early pages, trusting that her subconscious knows what’s important. — Karen Palmer september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1795, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for redraft

• abaft
• aircraft
• camshaft
• crankshaft
• downdraft
• engraft
• priestcraft
• schoolcraft
• spacecraft
• stagecraft
• statecraft
• updraft