1. a person who edits or revises written material for publication
2. a person who compiles or arranges existing texts into a new work
Usage: scholarly

Examples

• The magazine’s redactor carefully reviewed all submissions before publication.
• As the chief redactor, she was responsible for maintaining editorial standards.
• The biblical redactor combined multiple sources into a single narrative.
• Each redactor brought their own perspective to the ancient texts.
• The newspaper hired a new redactor to oversee the opinion section.
• Scholars debate which redactor was responsible for this particular passage.