Redaction vs Retraction - What's the difference?
redaction | retraction |
(countable) Edited or censored version of a document.
(countable) The change or changes made while editing.
(uncountable) The process of editing or censoring.
An act or instance of retracting.
A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
(mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
As nouns the difference between redaction and retraction
is that redaction is edited or censored version of a document while retraction is an act or instance of retracting.redaction
English
Noun
- The government supplied only the redaction to the reporters, the original was kept secret.
- The Expense Claims made by Members of Parliament must be subject to redaction before publication under the Freedom of Information Act.