Usually means: Edit text for clarity, conciseness.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word blue-pencil:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. blue-pencil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blue-pencil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blue-pencil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blue-pencil, blue-pencil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blue-pencil: Vocabulary.com
  6. blue-pencil: Wordnik
  7. blue-pencil: Wiktionary
  8. blue-pencil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blue-pencil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blue-pencil: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. blue-pencil: Dictionary.com
  12. blue-pencil: Rhymezone
  13. blue-pencil: Free Dictionary
  14. blue-pencil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. blue-pencil: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue-pencil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue-pencil: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue-pencil: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue-pencil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See blue-penciled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blue-pencil)

verb:  (transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
verb:  (politics, slang) To use a line-item veto.

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