rewriteman
Americannoun
plural
rewritemenGender
See -man.
Etymology
Origin of rewriteman
Example Sentences
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Last July a rewriteman named Dean S. Jennings complained that he was forced to resign from Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin in order to attend the Guild's national convention.
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The Post's Guild Chairman Jay Nelson Tuck, a rewriteman, told the boss that the guild had appointed the entire Post staff to the grievance committee.
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To Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story�at first.
From Time Magazine Archive
He never gets a byline, never actually writes a story himself; he simply talks on the telephone, then repeats what he has learned from the conversation to a rewriteman or an other reporter.
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As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History.
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