copyedit

copyeditverb

• 1

  mediaprintingpublishingTo correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.

  • Memoirs of a Bastard Angel contains so many amazing howlers that it seems barely to have been copyedited or proofread.

copyeditnoun

• 1

  The process or act of copyediting a document.

  • A copyedit is the final type of edit performed on documents.
  • The copyedit may be strictly mechanical or may include stylistic changes.
• 2

  The result of copyediting a document.

  • Your production editor will probably not contact you until the due date of the copyedit is established in-house.
• 3

  A single change to the text of a document that is an instance of copyediting.

  • For example, if the author is responsible for inserting the copyedits into the source files, then there are repercussions later on when changes are made during the page formatting stage.
  • The copyedits in science.net — a game designed for middle school students — were somewhat less blunt, but they were supposed to retain the other salient features of the original.