op-ed

Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒpˌɛd/

op-ed (plural op-eds)

1. A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.

op-ed (comparative more op-ed, superlative most op-ed)

1. Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.
   • 2009/05/08, William Safire, Choice or Necessity

     The question was probably bottomed on a combination of phrases in a Washington Post op-ed article that appeared not three months before by Richard Haass, who was a foreign-policy adviser in both Bush administrations and is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

2. Of an article, written in a style suitable for publication as an op-ed.
   • 2005, Art & Collection Group, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art,

     For a more ‘op ed’ approach to the current state of the Hong Kong art scene see my recent article "Doer's Droop," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005, C6.

3. Of a person, regularly expressing viewpoints by means of op-eds.
   • 1991, New York Times & Arno Press, The New York Times biographical service, Volume 22,

     Descriptions of him vary from "aggressively intelligent," "inventive," "articulate," "the most ‘op-ed’ academic in the field of education" to "arrogant" "combative," "hostile," and "dismissive" of ideas not his own.

• deop, depo, dope, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, poed