Usually means: Edit text to obscure sensitive information.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word redact:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. redact: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. redact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. redact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. redact: Collins English Dictionary
  5. redact: Vocabulary.com
  6. Redact, redact: Wordnik
  7. redact: Wiktionary
  8. redact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. redact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. redact: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Redact, redact: Dictionary.com
  12. redact: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Redact (disambiguation), Redact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Redact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. redact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. redact: Rhymezone
  17. Redact: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. redact: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. redact: Free Dictionary
  20. redact: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. redact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. redact: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. redact: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redact: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redact: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Redact: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
verb:  (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
verb:  To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
verb:  (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
verb:  (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
verb:  (obsolete) 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.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
verb:  (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
verb:  (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

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