Rewriter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, rewrites.

    "On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times."

  2. 2
    someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication wordnet
  3. 3
    Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.

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"On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times."

Etymology

From rewrite + -er.

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