redaction
- n putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
- n the act of putting something in writing
- Chapman's Homer, a redaction of the secular words of a pagan bard, naturally received no such binding spiritual and temporal authorization.
- To suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that "the purpose of declassification .
- HARMAN: I want the government to release those transcripts without redaction, without crossing out names.