REDACT

redact

Verb

  1. To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
  2. To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
  3. To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
  4. To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
  5. To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
  6. To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.
  7. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
  8. To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
  9. To censor, used by a government when parts of a document are kept secret and the remainder released.
    The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
  10. To black out text for other purposes, such as in law, when legally protected sections of text are obscured in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.


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