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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proofread
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Analysts photocopied, proofread, and assembled breathtakingly dull securities documents for ninety and more hours a week.
▪ If you do use parentheses, check them when you proofread!
▪ In reality, of course, they do proofread.
▪ Remember to proofread on the hard copy, not on the computer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proofread

also proof-read, 1878, back-formation from proofreader. Related: Proofread; Proofreading.

Wiktionary
proofread

vb. (context transitive and intransitive English) To check a written text for errors in spelling and grammar.

WordNet
proofread

v. read for errors; "I should proofread my manuscripts" [syn: proof]

Usage examples of "proofread".

Produced by Robert Fite, Tom Allen, David Moynihan, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

The time it takes us, a rather conservative estimate, is fifty hours to get any etext selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright searched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc.

At first, it let misspellings go and I just proofread each page as I turned it out.

Produced by Anne Soulard, Michigan University, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

This eBook was produced by Avinash Kothare, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team LOUIS AGASSIZ.

This eBook was produced by Avinash Kothare, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US unless a copyright notice is included.

Produced by Thomas Berger, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

To create these etexts, the Project expends considerable efforts to identify, transcribe and proofread public domain works.

Its vital RNA lacks the proofreading and editing skills which longer, more stable genomes such as ours have developed.

It is a worldwide library created and maintained by a small army of dedicated volunteers who scan, proofread, and upload dozens of new e-texts every week.

Quayle, Ed Dunnigan, Mike Hubble, Mike Thelen, and Rodger Olsen all made many valuable suggestions and did yeoman service at proofreading.