abridger
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Noun edit
abridger (plural abridgers)
- One who abridges. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
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- 1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 47:
- I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.
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Translations edit
one who abridges
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References edit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abridger”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.