Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun copy_editing

1 sense of copy editing

Sense 1
copy editing -- (putting something into a form suitable for a printer)
       => editing, redaction -- (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb copy_edit

1 sense of copyedit

Sense 1
copyread, subedit, copyedit -- (edit and correct (written or printed material))
       => edit, redact -- (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages")