redraft

redraft

English

Etymology

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Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English draft
English redraft

    From re- + draft.

    Verb

    redraft (third-person singular simple present redrafts, present participle redrafting, simple past and past participle redrafted)

    1. To draft again
      • 2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC‎[1]:
        maybe the metamorphoses are – as in Adaptation – a comment on the screenwriting process, and the way that characters’ identities are revised as the writer drafts and redrafts the script.
      • 2021 June 2, “Network News: "Root and branch" review three years in the making”, in RAIL, number 932, page 10:
        The total collapse of franchising that followed forced Williams and Shapps to redraft a number of the recommendations.

    Noun

    redraft (plural redrafts)

    1. A second or subsequent draft
    2. (finance) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or endorsers, for the amount of the bill, with costs and charges.

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