blue-pencil

English

Etymology

Verb

blue-pencil (third-person singular simple present blue-pencils, present participle (UK) blue-pencilling or (US) blue-penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) blue-pencilled or (US) blue-penciled)

(transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
(politics, slang) To use a line-item veto.

Related terms

red-pencil

Translations

to edit written documents

Bulgarian: редактирам (bg) (redaktiram), цензурирам (cenzuriram)
Chinese:
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Finnish: käyttää punakynää
French: caviarder (fr)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

use a line-item veto

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Finnish: käyttää punakynää
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