cutter and paster

English

Noun

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

1. (informal, journalism) An editor who cuts and pastes or copies and pastes text, stories, pictures, etc. to be published.

   She's a great cutter and paster; she can get half the magazine done in a week.

   • 1959, American Comparative Literature Association et al, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature‎^[1], page 75:

     The editor as cutter and paster has brought together an unpretentious assemblage of literary elements: a chronological survey of Latin (what is it? ' writings', or 'readings'? literature, history, apologetics? satire...

2. (informal, computing) Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.

   Zack is a keen cutter and paster; he likes grabbing headlines from political and entertainment sites and posting them on his page.