'Editing' definitions:

Definition of 'editing'

From: WordNet
noun
Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form [syn: editing, redaction]

Definition of 'Editing'

From: GCIDE
  • Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.] To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. [1913 Webster]
  • Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. --Enfield. [1913 Webster]