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revision
  1. (uncountable) The process of revising:
    1. The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
    2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
  2. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
  3. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The addition of more complicated processes increases computational cost and makes the maintenance and revision of the models more challenging.”
      “This booklet is taken from the latest revision of The Book of Knowledge.”
      “A minor revision has been added to the audit report.”
revisor
  1. (translation studies) A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
  2. (law, US) In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In this case the necessary preliminary of submitting an inventory to a revisor had evidently been complied with.”
      “The official programme of the Scuola pictures, printed on screens in various languages, badly needs an English revisor.”
      “The revisor is the second comic masterpiece of the Russian stage.”
revisionism
  1. the advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events
  2. (derogatory) an evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A hallmark of all revisionism is its exclusion of any possibility of a serious crisis of American imperialism.”
      “Moreover, this revisionism of history itself seems limitless, as if with the coming twenty-first century it implied a return to a zero point.”
      “Media-orchestrated cults of personality and shameless historical revisionism, they already know about.”
reviser
  1. One who revises.
  2. (translation studies) A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Not a word or tone could be altered without the reviser being accused of being a modern anti-revolutionist.”
      “Like Bonnard, Max is an obsessive reviser, unable to step away from the canvas and declare the pictures complete.”
      “Richardson was an indefatigable reviser of his own work, and the various editions of his novels differ greatly.”
revise
revisal
  1. The act of revising; a revision.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We used to read the first book of Euclid, but regularly as we reached the dreadful pass we were turned back for a revisal.”
      “In 31 electoral districts, returning officers approved the setting up of revisal desks to target specific populations for voter registration.”
      “In our post-election evaluations, we will analyze the effectiveness of the revisal desks to determine whether they should be used more widely.”
revisability
  1. The state or quality of being revisable
revisionist
revisionisms
revisionists
  1. plural of revisionist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The working-class resistance which revisionists admiringly celebrated was nonetheless doomed to romantic failure.”
      “To the revisionists, the novelty of the 'new' police was neither efficiency nor integrity.”
      “According to the revisionists, mechanical television was an aberration which is not to be taken seriously.”
revisions
revisors
  1. plural of revisor
revisers
  1. plural of reviser
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She argues that Cranmer and the later revisers of the Book of Common Prayer did not abolish reservation for communion with the sick.”
      “If journalism is the first draft of history, reporters can assist the revisers by dutifully noting their sources.”
      “Ironically enough, they did much to familiarize the revisers with the rhemish version and its merits.”
revisals
revises
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