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reviser

reviser

5.5
A person who checks and corrects text before publishing
  • noun
  • /rɪˈvaɪzər/
translation icon : revisor
  • Bumstead examines the history, the mythology, and the historical revisionism and pronounces a need to revise the revisers.
  • revisers check

Examples

  • The revisers have drawn attention in footnotes to variant readings that may result in significant alternative understanding or interpretation of the text, and in particular to those readings that were followed in The New English Bible, but which now seem to the revisers to be less probable than those used in this revision.

    Academic text (2007)
  • As Weinfeld points out, the biblical authors were what we would call collectors, compilers, revisers, editors, and interpreters of ancient tradition.

  • I mean, I've been until recently very much not a reviser because everything came in the first draft.

  • He remained an obsessive reviser throughout his life.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The expectations of the teachers played a powerful role in shaping how the students viewed themselves as revisers.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Shermer and Grobman (2000) accurately renamed these individuals deniers of historical facts, not revisers.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The revisers have drawn attention in footnotes to variant readings that may result in significant alternative understanding or interpretation of the text, and in particular to those readings that were followed in The New English Bible, but which now seem to the revisers to be less probable than those used in this revision.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many of the authors, translators, or revisers are women, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Yonge to Beatrix Potter.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The name of this article has been supplied by the reviser.

  • He remained an obsessive reviser throughout his life.

Synonyms

editor
vsreviser
3.0

A person who chooses and corrects the final text in a newspaper, magazine, or book

is a hands-on reviewer of text rather than the final decision maker
copy editor
vsreviser
  • Specialized
8 3.4

A person who checks and corrects grammar, spelling, and style in written text before it is published

reviews and corrects the whole text broadly to prepare it for publishing
proofreader
vsreviser
3 3.8

A person who reads text to find and fix spelling and grammar errors

covers those surface corrections but also edits content and structure
coeditor
vsreviser
1 3.6

A person who shares the job of making a book, magazine, or newspaper ready to publish

usually works alone to review and correct text for publication
rewriter
vsreviser
1 4.0

A person who edits text to make it clear and ready to be published

is more general, correcting and preparing text rather than adapting it
copyreader
vsreviser
6.8

A person who checks and corrects writing before it is published

performs broader reviewing and editing tasks beyond final checks
subeditor
vsreviser
  • Jargon
6.5

A person who checks and corrects articles before they are published

acts more independently to review and correct all parts of a text
redactor
vsreviser
  • Formal
8.6

A person who edits and prepares text for publication, shaping its form

focuses more on correcting and preparing text rather than reshaping it

How Thorough

editor in chief
  • Literature
49 4.4
editor
3.0
reviser
5.5
proofreader
3 3.8

Surface Forms

reviser singular
revisers plural

Morphology

reviser = revise (transparent) = revise + er

Agentive noun formed productively from the verb 'revise' with the suffix '-er', so the meaning 'person who revises' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Reviser comes from the verb revise, which is made from re- 'again' and a part that means 'to see', the same idea in vision. A reviser is someone who 'sees again' a text to find and fix mistakes, so they edit and correct documents.