redraft

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English

Etymology

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:
      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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