Usually means: Omitting or obscuring specific information.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. redacting: Merriam-Webster
  2. redacting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. redacting: Vocabulary.com
  4. redacting: Wordnik
  5. redacting: Wiktionary
  6. redacting: Dictionary.com
  7. Redacting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. redacting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redacting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redacting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See redact as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (redact)

verb:  (usually transitive) 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.
▸ Also see redact


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