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UK
/pɹˈuːfɹiːdɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
How To Use proofreader In A Sentence
- Many who were less talented at writing entered the world of publishing as editors, calligraphers, copyists, or proofreaders.
- Like a proofreader searching for a typo in a book, the lab must read each exon to see if it contains a mutation. Genetics and Alagille Syndrome
- She can write "stet" as well as I can ( "stet" is a proofreaders mark, Latin for "let it stand," and when one wishes to disregard a copyeditor's mark, one writes "stet" in the margin of the page. One of those WoW things.
- The proofreader then corrects the text and the editor looks through it again and makes the final changes.
- I can't remember how to spell myself anymore because although I was once a competent proofreader I've spent a lot of time on the intarwebs since then and have almost grown accustomed to pregnate women with dialating cervices so how many Ls there are in travelling is beyond me. So so tired
- She's been a pastry chef, a whorehouse receptionist, and a proofreader on Wall Street.
- I don't know whether to count this as one or two errors by the soi-disant ‘official’ proofreader of San Bloggio, but this time she has stuck her big toe in the light socket.
- I was paid (through an adult intermediary because of child labor laws) as a technical proofreader for Chemical Abstracts (knowing an o from an omicron AND knowing the molecule in question was a key). On Teens, and the Fact Their Writing Sucks « Whatever
- Poetic Obituaries: Working as the sole writer, editor, illustrator, platemaker, compositor, proofreader and pressman, he Joseph Low published limited editions of short stories and poetry, illustrated with his own wood and linoleum cuts. Poetic Obituaries: Working as the sole writer,
- As a young office worker, then a proofreader, he was attracted to anarchism before becoming a syndicalist.