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redacted

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Redacted means with the sensitive parts blacked out. A redacted report, heavily redacted.

The shape of what is missing often says as much as the words would have. A badly redacted file can sometimes be read anyway, which has embarrassed several governments.

Definitions of redacted

  1. 1adjectiveredactedWith the sensitive parts blacked out.C1

    “The report arrived so heavily redacted that four pages were solid black.”

redacted is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    redactus

  2. Old French

    redacter

  3. English

    redact

  4. English, today

    redacted

Built from

  • redigō · Latin — drive, lead, collect, reduce
  • re- · Latin — back
  • agō · Latin — put in motion, drive

redact comes from Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”). react.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Spying & Secrecy

Practise this word

redacted in the wild

  • The redacted version of the report was released to the public on May 25, 1999.

    Cox Report

  • The release of the redacted report was preceded by an intelligence community report which was more conservative in its allegations.

    Cox Report

  • The DOD undertook an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), published in redacted form in 2008.

    Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations

  • Censor bars may also have the words "censored", "redacted", "private information", "sensitive information", etc. to indicate their presence.

    Censor bars

  • A type IV was initially proposed, but later redacted before the final paper was published.

    Bautz–Morgan classification

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the redigō family

redactredacted

redacted — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others