redaction

Meanings

1. An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.
2. The change or changes made while editing.
3. The process of editing or censoring.

Etymology

From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion.