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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sub-editor
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A first-class woman columnist would come from the Liverpool Post, along with the man to fill the key job of chief sub-editor.
▪ If this omission was not the fault of some over-zealous sub-editor, them Mr Bailey ought to be ashamed of himself.

Usage examples of "sub-editor".

Half the Art department were in there, toer with a large and raucous contingent of sub-editors.

Half the Art department were in there, toer with a large and raucous contingent of sub-editors.

One day he took me to the headquarters of his father's newspaper, and there, after a brief colloquy with a sub-editor, he showed me the page-sized pink cardboard forms, embossed with what would be the funnies, when the sheets had been through the stereotyping machine, which would cast them in printer's metal.

Around the corner from the old vanished bakery on Richmond Hill were the splendid, vaguely art deco offices of the Bournemouth Evening Echo, where I worked for two years as a sub-editor in a room borrowed from a Dickens novel - untidy stacks of paper, gloomy lighting, two rows of hunched figures sitting at desks, and all of it bathed in a portentous, exhausting silence, the only noises the fretful scratchings of pencils and a soft but echoing tunk sound each time the minute hand on the wall clock clicked forward a notch.