cutter and paster

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Noun

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

  1. (informal, journalism) An editor who cuts and pastes or copies and pastes text, stories, pictures, etc. to be published.
    She's a great cutter and paster; she can get half the magazine done in a week.
    • 1959, American Comparative Literature Association et al, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, page 75:
      The editor as cutter and paster has brought together an unpretentious assemblage of literary elements: a chronological survey of Latin (what is it? ' writings', or 'readings'? literature, history, apologetics? satire...
  2. (informal, computing) Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.
    Zack is a keen cutter and paster; he likes grabbing headlines from political and entertainment sites and posting them on his page.