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From redact + -or.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdæktə(ɹ)/

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redactor (plural redactors)

1. A person who redacts: one who edits or compiles texts; one who censors portions of them.
   • 1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint:

     Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.

• redact
• redaction

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “redactor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “redactor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• carroted, creotard

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [rə.ðəkˈtu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [rə.ðəkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.ðakˈtoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [re.ðakˈto]

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redactor m (plural redactors, feminine redactora, feminine plural redactores)

1. editor (of a publication)

• redactar

• “redactor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

redactor m (plural redactores, feminine redactora, feminine plural redactoras)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of redator; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

• “redactor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French rédacteur.

redactor m (plural redactori)

1. editor

• IPA^(key): /redaɡˈtoɾ/ [re.ð̞aɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: re‧dac‧tor

redactor m (plural redactores, feminine redactora, feminine plural redactoras)

1. editor (especially of a publication)

   redactor jefe ― editor in chief

• “redactor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025