0 to check and make changes to a text in order to prepare it to be published:
Users will be able to contribute to the guides, but they will be rigorously fact-checked and copy edited.
He is wonderfully articulate, speaking in paragraphs that don't require copy editing.
I once had to copy-edit a quarterly report on the status of monitoring wells on a hazardous waste site.
It costs money to publish papers, to have them reviewed, to have them copy edited.
He puts together the magazine on a computer in his apartment and relies on an all-volunteer staff to help him copy edit the stories.
It's a very shoddily written section. It wasn't copy-edited properly.
